--- In IBDI@y..., Helen Borrie <helebor@d...> wrote:

> At 10:35 AM 01-08-01 +0000, Steen wrote:
> >In the beginning of my program I check the layout of the
> >tables. I do this with the SQLColumns function, but it
> >seems that each VARCHAR fields are reported to be 2 bytes
> >too long.
>
> These might be varchars whose length has been changed. InterBase 6

and the earlier versions of Firebird have a bug that causes this to
happen when varchar lengths are altered.

>
> regards,
> Helen
>
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But the Intersolv driver is reporting the correct length on
the exact same database.

Steen