Hello All,

We have a Firebird 2.1.4 running on CentOS 5.5

I am having a problem trying to insert data into an External Table and then read it back.

Here is out output from fbsvcmgr;

fbsvcmgr service_mgr -user sysdba -password masterke  -info_server_version -info_implementation

Server version: LI-V2.1.3.18185 Firebird 2.1

Server implementation: Firebird/linux AMD64

And from uname –a

Linux <hostname>  2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So it looks like I have 64 bit OS and 64 bit Firebird install

I have an external table definition of about 176 fields in this particular external table. 88 real fields and 88 additional fields used to track NULL status for each field.

I am populating the table as so…

INSERT INTO EXT_TABLE ( Field1, field2, field3…)

Select Field1, field2, field3… FROM SRC_TABLE;

There should be about 1.4 Million rows written out to the External Table.

The weird thing is that my insert statement completes successfully. I get no Errors.

But when I try to do an select count(*) on the external table it bombs with the following error message.

Unsuccessful execution caused by a system error the precludes successful execution of subsequent statements.

I/O error for file “@2”.

Error while trying to open file.

Invalid Argument.

On the Linux server it wrote out a file about 4.3 GBs.

If I do a select count(*) it bombs, but if loop via the FOR SELECT and add a WHEN ANY CLAUSE I get a count of about 667,000 row count.

I saw documentation for External Tables being 2GB for 32bit implementations, but the I can’t find one for firebird 2.1.4 - 64bit.

Maybe I might be hitting a Linux Limitation, but our FIREBIRD Database on this same server is 240GB.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Ed Mendez