Dmitry,

> 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?

What, if any, benefits do you see in the new convention?

I don't know anything about the new structure and how it differs from
RDB$Types.


Sean