I have to agree. It is time to move on to DIALECT 3.

>Can I add my 1.2342 cents (2 cents CAD), I think that for FB 1.5 there should be in
>the release notes, a notice that Dialect 1 is depreciated, and that it is no longer
>being maintained. For FB 2.0 the SET DIALECT statement should be syntax
>checked but ignored and the engine hard wired to Dialect 3. As the code
>maintainers, doing other things find Dialect 1 only code, they can then clean it out.
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>One of the issues currently being dealt with, is running two engines at the same
>time, so there would be nothing wrong with running FB 1.0 for the dialect 1
>databases, and FB 2.0 for the Dialect 3 databases. So the issue of maintaining
>Dialect 1 for all future engines becomes, really a non-issue.
>
>Paul
>formerly paul@...
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