"Daniel Rail" <daniel@...> wrote:

>
> So why not simply change the types SMALLINT fields to actual VARCHAR,
> in the next ODS version change

This will make database downgrade impossible as it breaks older gbak
versions. We cannot change existing columns.

> And, if this means one less step/code to execute, then I'm all for it.
> Anything to improve performance, even if it might be small, is good.

It has nothing to do with performance as the engine doesn't use RDB$TYPES at
all.


Dmitry