At 11:29 PM 24/04/2006, you wrote:

>What is the fundamental antagonist on getting this feature
>implemented? I get the impression that it is pretty steep

It is.

>being that it has to be the most asked for feature, yet no one wants
>to tackle it. If it is only time, maybe I can
>tackle this in some spare time.

Approach it in Firebird-Architect. This goes deep and wide into the
implementation of the engine and is something Dmitry Y. partly spec'd
some time ago. It's not a topic for here.

You can see where it stood in Dmitry's scheme of things at Conference
time last year by going here and scrolling down to the feature matrix:

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/devel/engine/roadmap2006.html

^ heLen