All,

Historically, all object types (field datatype, trigger type, etc) were
encoded as a smallint value with a textual description stored in RDB$TYPES.
For some reason, Borland has dropped this convention and introduced the
character RDB$CONSTRAINT_TYPE column. They also follow their new convention
in the new IB versions. My question is what's our position on this and how
we're going to represent new object types in our metadata?


Dmitry