Today the above subject was registered in our Firebird log. We don't
find any clues to what happened, but it happened approximately at a
time when I did something Firebirdy that I've never done before, hence
I kind of hope I'm to blame:

I did a RECREATE TABLE A (<fieldname> ... to get rid of an external
file that stored this table before. The table was completely empty,
and I was most likely the only person attached to that database at
that time (though I was accessing it from both IB_SQL and Database
WorkBench). I am normally the only person using that database and no
DML was done, just DDL.

Am I correct in guessing that this is a probable cause? I didn't
recreate the error, because Aage wouldn't be the only one not
rejoicing if I crashed the Firebird engine on the same server as our
production database resides 'just for testing'. I made one little test
on a different server (Firebird 1.5.1) , but didn't recreate the problem.

We're using Firebird 1.5.2.4731 SS running as a service.

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