No, there isn't any special handling of this information.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Computer Programming Solutions
Mesa Arizona
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Steinmaurer" <ts@...>
To: "IBObjects" <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: [IBO] Getting the description text of tables, columns, ...


> Hi,
>
> is there an easy way to get the description text of
> tables, columns, ... stored in the system table's column
> RDB$DESCRIPTION without the need to execute such a
> query on the system tables myself?
>
> I mean, is the description text somewhere cached after
> connecting to a database?
>
> Thank you,
> Thomas Steinmaurer
> http://www.iblogmanager.com