lucas_jessee wrote:

> If I'm reading everything correctly, Firebird does NOT support bulk
> inserts and anything close to it is kind of a hack.

It does support bulk inserts via external tables. It's somewhat hard to
prepare such table, and has some limitations (poor NULL support), but if
you just need to insert a lot of integers, it should be fine.

> contain N 32 byte blocks for this example. The first 32 byte block
> would be the first 4 BIGINT's to insert into the table, the second
> would be the next 4 BIGINT's, etc.

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