>> The client does fetch the resultset row by row. The Time sould be
>> determined more by the size of result than by the complexity of query.
> Is this actually true? I just ran a test, remotely (through an internet
> link) connecting to a database on a firebird 2.5 server, and I ran a
> wireshark dump while performing simple select statements.

There was an protocol-enhancement in one of the last updates. FB 2.5
should be significantly better than 2.0 on slow connections.

Elmar