> I checked, I believe it is fixed with JDBC-130. However I am wondering why
> Jaybird is appending a '%' (and 31 spaces) to the pattern, where I think
> it shouldn't do that.

AFAIK, issue is with Firebird's metadata tables - they are CHAR(31), not
VARCHAR(31) and when you use them in your requests, they will be padded
to 31-char length...

Roman