--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> > My only problem is the datatypes. I would much rather use INT64

than

> > Double Precision, because of the accuracy. That's why I want to

use

> > dialect 3.
>
> I suppose you're positive you need int64? int32 is a pretty big

number. An

> app still locked into the BDE needing int64?
> Alan

Well, yes. It's a much older application working with a new program.
The new program is in dialect 3 but the older applicationis still
working with BDE. It's not cost efficient enough to rewrite the
older program, but it's necessary to change the guids to 15 digits.