> Hi,
> I Have old databases with 3 procedures named day, month and year.
> The DB's where created under IB5.6.
> Now they run under FB1.5. with Dialect 1.
> Because day,month, year are now keywords, i tried to drop the procedures.
> But dropping with "drop procedure month"
> gets error "token unknown ... month".
>
> Is there another way to get rid of those procedures having keywords?
> dropping the procedures under IB5.6. is not a solution.
> Is it save to delete the procedures from the system tables like this
>
> delete from rdb$procedures where rdb$procedure_name="MONTH"
> and
> delete from rdb$procedure_paramters where rdb$procedure_name="MONTH"
>
> did i miss some other system tables?
>

if you backup and restore in 1.5 the SPs will be truncated, then you can
drop them
Alan

>
>
> btw:
> if i use old interbase gds32.dll "drop procedure month" works fine?!?!
> With fbclient.dll not?!?!
> So, what do the client-dlls have to do with SQL-Statements executed on
> the server?
> I thought they only pass the sql-statements as is?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Falko