Charles and Sean thank you for your help and insight. Things are much
clearer on what I have to do now.

Have a nice day.

Daniel Rail

At 21/02/2001 14:52, you wrote:

>Daniel,
>
>Yes, Firebird has the same limitation. By the way, the limit is 255
>metadata changes to any single table - that's a lot of changes to a
>table.
>
>Historically, it has not been considered a priority to extend this
>limit. It is perhaps something which can be considered as part of a
>major ODS revision (which would not be backward compatible).
>
>You can incorporate a backup and restore within your application - just
>don't ever overwrite the existing database, restore to a temp file,
>rename the original file, change temp file to original filename.
>
>
>Sean
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Rail [mailto:drail@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:44 PM
>To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ib-support] Too many versions error
>
>Does anybody know if Firebird has this limit of 255 metadata changes?
>I'm
>creating a program that would make the necessary modifications on my
>clients servers. But if there's a limit on the changes, this could be
>dangerous for me, since most of my clients had guidance on installing
>the
>software and don't want to take the time for maintenance. I have one
>question, if I incorporate in the software the backup and restore(with
>replace), would this work?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Daniel Rail
>
>At 21/02/2001 14:26, you wrote:
>
> > >I have the following error when trying to ALTER a DOMAIN:
> > >
> > >Project raised exception class EIB_ISCError with message
> > >'ISC ERROR CODE:335544351
> > >ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
> > >unsuccessful metadata update
> > >TABLE CLIENTS
> > >too many versions'
> >
> >You may have exceeded the "limit" on metadata changes, I believe it is
> >255. If so, a gbak, then restore will reset the for you.
> >
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