Jim Starkey wrote:

>Alex Peshkov wrote:
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>>But this is really a problem - what to do if coteries list is empty?
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>Reject it as a syntax error.
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This will break a LOT of old applications. No one existing GUI client
for today is able to send cotery information to firebird.
Certainly, this is OK for new applications. But what to do with old ones?