>> select 1.000000000 / 1.0000000000 from rdb$database DY> I suppose this particular case (and maybe some others of the same kind) DY> can be worked around. Perhaps we could truncate intermediate results to DY> fit the maximum supported bitness if and only if the trailing bytes are DY> insignificant zeroes.
DY> But I really doubt this would be enough as a generic solution. Agreed. It may help in some cases, but will not help in the case where all members of the equation are fields or variables. []s Carlos http://www.firebirdnews.org FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel