On Thu, 30 May 2013 23:09:45 -0000, "sir_wally_lewis"
<rgilland1966@...> wrote:

> There is a DROP DATABASE command.
> It would make life a lot simpler if I could RENAME a database.
>
> DROP DATABASE is too dangerous a command.
>
> We can't have it feasible that a client loses it's database
>
> RENAME DATABASE new_name.fdb
>
> Would resolve the show stopping failure of dropping a database.
>
> This feature would help us extremely.

What about:
* Backup database
* Restore under new name
* Drop old database

You can post feature requests to the Firebird tracker (
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE )

Mark