> Fabiano, 5 minutes is really "never"? :)

I aborted after this time, but it will take much more. After that i
did a 'select count(*)' from this table and after 15 minutes i
hadn't the count (just 20.000 records)

> Interesting virtue of human psychology - the only real problem in
> MCGA is garbage and everybody recall this only stepping on this

rake

> temselves, not when planning data structures and access modes :)

Calm down, i not blaming anything. It's just because it's the first
time it happened to me, after years working with IB/FB, and i'd like
to know what is happening to avoid it.

Your indices stuff worked well for me. Thank you.

If i used -g when doing that backup i would not have that delay? Do
you mean gbak makes backup of the garbage, too?