> A 24x7 application is deployed and the users try to run it. Something
> is not quite right, so new DML is promoted and new DDL is submitted to
> the DBA, who drops and recreates the table. The application
> configuration is updated but the app never closes. This can't be that
> unusual - I can't be the only one here thinking 24x7 uptime.

I do not say that it is wrong - Firebird should handle this correctly (and
it does in SS version), but I suspect that something goes wrong with table
reference bookkeeping. Since that was not discovered till now, this is
somewhat unusual for me :)

Roman