--- In IB-Conversions@y..., Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:

> At 08:50 AM 14-05-02 +0000, you wrote:
> >I'm trying to upsize a paradox database to interbase 5.
> >Tables containing timestamp fields are not converted.
> >When I delete the timestamp fields from these tables datapump does
> >convert the tables. Is this normal behaviour of datapump?
>
> If you are talking about the Delphi datapump, yes it is, because it

doesn't

> know about IB 6 dialect 3 Timestamp type. The equivalent type in

IB 5 and

> in IB 6 dialect 1 is DATE. Try to get it to convert Paradox

timestamp to

> InterBase 5 DATE type.
>
> cheers,
> Helen

Thanks Helen. I'll try that.