Thanks for that.

Pity our software supplier is moving from IB 5.6 to FB 1.5 and not 2.x.



RBS



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From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
Sent: 04 May 2008 01:58
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] external table file lock



At 10:42 AM 4/05/2008, you wrote:

>Have come across a problem in Interbase 5.6 and that is that
>the files associated with external tables (in this case text files)
>can't be deleted without stopping the Interbase server. This is even after
>dropping the table. Stopping the server is no option, so it looks I am

stuck

>here.
>Has this been fixed in Firebird 1.5 or 2.x?

Yes, in v.2.0

./heLen





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