Alan McDonald wrote:

>>The metadata of a table includes a "description" field for every field
>>of the table.
>>Now I wonder how do I fill in that metadata field, for instance when
>>creating a domain:
>
> AFAIK - only the 3rd party tools like IBExpert, etc will create a
> description script for you. It's a system table update, not part of the DDL
> definition for the table unfortunately.

That's correct. There was already a discussion at devel list to introduce
support for descriptions in some of the future versions of Firebird.

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