At 09:06 AM 30/09/2004 -0300, you wrote:

>Well, i use lookups inside the application (Delphi) so can put the
>checks inside the middle tier in ASTA, and remove that foreign keys.
>Can you tell me if the next version of firebird will change that or will
>remain in the same way?

No, I can't tell you that. I only know that Arno is working on a solution
to the problem of long duplicate chains in those low-selectivity indexes.

./hb