Hello!

Ann W. Harrison pisze:

> that's not likely to be the cause. How many pointer pages
> are there in that table?

SQL> select rdb$relation_id, rdb$page_type, count(*)
CON> from RDB$PAGES
CON> group by rdb$relation_id, rdb$page_type
CON> order by 3 desc ;

RDB$RELATION_ID RDB$PAGE_TYPE COUNT
=============== ============= ============
0 3 1395
134 4 606
135 4 47
166 4 12
162 4 11
142 4 2

Best regards,
...michal