> >Just to add to Helen's comments. A metadata change is any kind of DDL, e.g.
> >if you set an index to inactive before doing some batch inserts and then
> >set it active afterwards, you've already done two metadata changes. But
> >these 254 changes are to each database object within the database, so we're
> >not talking about 254 changes in total to the database.
> >
> >Set
>
> Actually, I think that setting indexes and triggers to active/inactive does
> not update the counts in Firebird.

Correct. This was greatly improved in Firebird and still is an issue
in IB 6.0.x, but AFAIK a similar improvement went into IB 6.5.


Thomas.