[Firebird-devel] bad length record (183)

[Ann W. H. <aha...@ib...>]

Thank you Mike -

    Now that I'm looking in the right place, the problem
is obvious, as is the fix which was made in ini.e.  I
think we're now OK with V5 databases.

     The problem was that two columns were added to the
table RDB$FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS between V5.6 and V6.  They
are RDB$PRECISION and RDB$CHARACTER_LENGTH.  Ordinarily,
adding columns to tables is not a problem because both
the old and new versions are described in RDB$FORMATS.
However, InterBase doesn't use RDB$FORMATS for system
tables.  It assumes that it understands them.  The change
to ini.e removes those two columns from InterBase's
image of the system tables when it is looking at pre-ODS10
databases.


Regards,

Ann