> Does Firebird have the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views defined anywhere?

No it doesn't.

> It sure would make querying the system tables a lot easier!

Somewhat, yes. But the standard INFORMATION_SCHEMA cannot cater
for all options of Firebird.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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