> In addition to the word FIRST it looks like the word TYPE is not
> allowed as a valid column name. Does anybody have a global list of
> invalid Firebird column names?

TYPE is reserved on all IB6 versions.

Two useful links.

http://www.ibphoenix.com/60sqlref.html

http://www.ibphoenix.com/ibp_reserved.html

But they have yet to be up-issued to include the latest
Firebird stuff ( anybody doing this ? )

I only have that from the release notes in Firebird
download.

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