Quote from http://www.fingerbird.de/generatorguide.htm

>So if you would feed a column with a Dialect 3 Generator, and you would
>insert 1000 rows per second, it would take roundabout 300 million >years
>(!) before it rolls over. As it is pretty unlikely mankind will still walk
>on this planet by then (and still use Firebird databases), that's nothing
>to >be really worried about :-)

They said the same thing when the decided on 512k ram! I bet in 300 million
years some poor programmer maintaining a legacy banking app is going to
google that and weep ;)