Hi, All.

Introduction, maybe useful for FB team. Sequence of events.

Having 3 simultaneos connections to LI-T1.0.0.368 (application,
makes nothing, started and forgotten, opened TIBDatabase in Delphi IDE
and WISQL where I worked) I added not null column to short table with
data, filled it by some single updates and tried to create FK from
this column to another table. First time I forgot to fill 1 line, got
exception and corrected mistake. Second time I forgot I have index on
parent table that is the same as PK, got exception, dropped this index
and tried to establish reference third time. Now I got exception -803

attempt to store duplicate value (visible to active transactions) in
unique index "RDB$INDEX_16"

and since that time I can't do any changes to this table - add column,
drop column etc. The same error every time. I made copy of this table
to temporary and can do all what I want with it, including creation of
those FK. It was'nt first time when this build showed strange behavior
when metadata were changed having more than 1 connection. I have
LI-T6.2.555 installed on another server and some days earlier copy of
this database on it. I made the same on this database - made the same
connections and run saved WISQL session that corrupted RDB$FORMATS or
RDB$INDEX_16 on 386 as script. No error - it seems you eleminated it's
reason between 386 and 555, congratulations.

Now question. It's a rather big database and I made really many
metadata changes and data filling on it since last copy. Attempts to
backup/restore or drop and re-create table (many dependencies and
FKs) or repeat my changes on another copy requires about half a day if
b/r can repair or much more if it can't. Is'nt there any (hack)
possibility to quick repair RDB$FORMATS or RDB$INDEX_16 by hands (any
delete/insert/update in some system table)? Just copy it's records in
RDB$FORMATS from temporary twin, for example? If not, no big problem,
there is'nt live production database, just my copy for developing and
my own time.

Thank you.