--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "svanderclock" <svanderclock@...> wrote:

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> a little heavy to do all the time a select :( and also if you misspell the field name the result will be wrong
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> the purpose of the constant can be also that you can not delete it when it's is use in some trigger ...

Vote for this feature request then
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-670


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