I'd expect it to be ok (or as ok as IB5.6 was) provided that

- you are sole user when doing the update to metadata
- the update doesn't use any post-5.6 features or behaviour

make sure you take a backup FIRST

On 20/09/2007, Falko <bausufm@...> wrote:
> Hi,
> i have a question that sounds a little curious:
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> for some reason we have to update the metadata of a database which has
> ODS 9.1. (IB5.6) and runs on a firebird 1.5.4. server.
> In our situation we don't want (or can't) make a backup/restore to
> upgrade the database to ODS 10.1.
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> Is this save?
> Is working with this database save?
> Or do we have to expect database corruption when data is inserted,
> updated or deleted?
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> Thanks
> Falko
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