just a question,
why firebird team decided to don't implement such feature?
may be usefull.

sorry for my bad eng
marco

2008/8/30 Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>

> Robert martin wrote:
> > Umm Yes
> >
> > Couldn't you run an SQL to change the data in any street with > 40 down
> > to 40. Then do the Alter?
>
> You cannot alter such column, no matter the data (FB does not check the
> data anyway). Try doing it with an empty table (i.e. no records).
>
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