> Thank you very much. I'm sure all hibernate users and firebird lovers like
> me will appreciate it very much

The issue was a bit harder than the suggested patch (which is correct for
JayBird 1.5.x, but not for JayBird 2.0.x), but it seems to be fixed now. I
will create a build (not yet decided whether RC2 or just some snapshot) to
test both Hibernate issues reported recently.

Roman