> > I mean: will IB take care of all due casting of the field containt ?
>
> Yes, but it's a performance penalty. You better backup and
> restore after
> such changes. Another one is to do a dummy update followed by
> a select * but
> with gbak you will know effectively if your db survived the
> change when you
> try to restore.

Into a _NEW_ database first!!


Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.interbaseworkbench.com


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