""Nick Upson"" <uebridger@...> wrote in message
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>
> isql on unix
> IB4

Call the museum. ;-)

> >Does the engine die after that?
>
> the connection does, the engine is ok

Usually, the engine dies, but if it didn't, then an internal error kills the
connection anyway (or the DSQL layer didn't react properly). IB4 was plagued
with those metadata bugs, although I found it robust for daily work. Usually
I had to give up and recreate the table.

C.
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