Hi,

> Thanks once again for your reply. I'm still unable to understand the
> rational behind the behavior. Let me try with the direct firebird
> ("paid") support and see if I can gather more details in this regard.

It was some kind of design decision. It undoubtely has to do
with multi-versioning and concurrency etc etc of records. And
therefor, simply: safety reasons.

Perhaps Ann/Helen can jump in here to give the exact reasons?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
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