At 04:01 AM 5/21/00 -0400, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

> (The only issue I see is that I will need to check again my
> routines to
>detect the presence of rdb$precision on system tables... instead of the
>server version, possibly I will have to peek at the ODS version.)

I believe that some of the utilities have code that checks for the existence
of the field directly and branches on the result. In this case:

"select count (*) from rdb$relation_fields
where rdb$relation_name = 'RDB$FIELDS'
and rdb$field_name = 'RDB$PRECISION;

> I assume that a client dialect 3 will continue being forbidden to
> access a
>dialect 1 db or not?

At this point, I see no way to disambiguate the two date datatypes.

Ann