> why an exception? ... btw are we talking php exception or firebird
> exception?

About a firebird exception. Our application handles a lot of things right
in the database, some of the calculating procedures reject some sets or
combinations of parameters by raising an exception. This is handled by the
Delphi front end nicely, but our new php-approach fails on that.

> you may be using an older version of the extension... what
> version of php are you running this on (php4 perhaps)?

Yes, it's php 4.3.0.

> ibase_query returns boolean false if I try this, which is what I would
> expect

It does not in php 4.3...

> no need for the extension to trigger a php-level error...
> although ibase_errmsg() and ibase_errcode() both return boolean false also

Well, thus... is there any way to figure out what's wrong - I mean: there
*is* a well defined error in Firebird on that statement...

> why do you need to perform this particular query?... a little more insight
> into what you are trying to do would help us to help you :-)

Of course, I do not want to divide by zero - but it is the most simple
statement to raise a Firebird exception :-)

Any further ideas?
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