"Jim Starkey" <jas@...> wrote:

>
> I don't think this is a question that can or should be answered in
> general. It depends on what the columns are.

Why should it matter? They're not used by us and we provide them for
backward compatibility only.

> What are the columns?

For example:

RDB$FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS
RDB$FIELD_TYPE
RDB$FIELD_SCALE
etc


Dmitry