i am using firebird RC 2, but if I am right this is >= 6.

would it be worth a try to reduce to Decimal(12,0) so that is is
sotred as int32??

--- In ib-support@y..., Lev Assinovsky <lev@p...> wrote:
> If you use the version >= 6
> then update shouldn't cause growing (DECIMAL(18,0) is stored as INT64).