At 03:20 PM 18-11-02 +1030, you wrote:

>Having extracted the metadata for a database, some of the fields have /*
>defaulted */
>after them.
>
>According to my dictionary, this means that the field "has not paid up".
>
>What does it mean in the FB/IB context?

It's a shorthand way of saying "This column has a default value defined for
it, to be used in the event that the engine does not receive null or a
value for it during an insert."

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