This is not a 'serious bug', this is safety - paramount in databases.

> Why can't you edit domains if they are used in a foreign key constraint?

To protect against data corruption?

Some changes to domains are relatively harmless whereas others can be very serious indeed.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "sqlsvr" <sqlsvr@...> wrote:
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> Why can't you edit domains if they are used in a foreign key constraint? What kind of nonsense is that?
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> If you have a natural key that is used in many places and the datatype ever or rule ever change (and they do in real business systems), you have to manually drop/recreate every constraint that refers to the domain in Firebird. How can Firebird call itself a relational DBMS when it fails to support domains properly?!?!?!?!?
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