Hello Jim,
thank you very much for your reply.

> > Is there a way to turn referential integrity constraint
> > checking off, when populating a Firebird database?
> I've been pushing for this for about a year and half now.

Does it mean that there is still no way to do that? Really no way? :(

> Foreign keys are exceeding valuable semantic information
> about a database, but ...
> sometimes it is catastrophic, as when a restore discovers
> a violation.

That's my case, and it may well prove catastrophic...

> Triggers, from the afternoon when I created them,
> have had the ability to be marked inactive.

How can you disable triggers, by the way?

> So should foreign key constraints.

Totally agree.