At 08:05 AM 8/04/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>It was once suggested to use this approach in Firebird
>installations, but for reasons unknown to me, not done.

It was done, AFAIR, it was there in both RC 6 and RC 7. But it simply did
not work. One of those documented SDK things that never got implemented by
Sir Billious and his knaves, one supposes...

/heLen