> And yes, this question has been around many times in many different
> guises. Alexander Nevsky ("Ded") engaged Nickolay Samofatov in a
> discussion of it recently (about 2-3 weeks ago) in firebird-devel -
> you could chase that thread up via the firebird-devel archives at
> news://news.atkin.com.

Subject of the discussion was "Crazy feature request" from 02.09.2003,
available in the news group.

Roman