> Another thing I found is that if I catch the EIB_ColumnError and
> continue... everything still works.

That is the sort of thing I have seen before. Error is
really just a warning, and a 'second try' completes correctly.

IB_SQL does 'catch' that sort of stuff and continue, hence
the difference?

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