fabiano_bonin wrote:

> I'm using IBExpert and it allows me to change the type of a field
> freely, but its changes are made directly to system tables.
>
> So far, so good. But this change doesn't smells good to me, as i have
> some indices in that field and it's also used inside some stored
> procedures and/or triggers.

All those changes should be fine. As long as you're increasing the size
of the field, and not changing it to numeric or something weird like
that, system table changes are OK - and IBExpert is very reliable about
the kinds of changes it makes.

>

Regards,


Ann