At 01:07 AM 11/05/2010, you wrote:

>On 31/03/2010 15:40, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
>I believe BIGINT is a new type in FB 2.5,

No. BIGINT entered the vocabulary at Fb. 1.5 as the formal (SQL-99-compliant) name for NUMERIC(18,0). Inprise aliased it as INT64 (non-standard) - AFAIK, INT64 is still a valid alias for BIGINT.

Helen