https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135616

--- Comment #2 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to JustAsking from comment #0)
> Description:
> I'm trying to load data into a Firebird embedded DB using an external table
> using the SQL statements explained here:
> 
> http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq209/
> 
> CREATE TABLE ext1 EXTERNAL 'c:\myfile.txt' ( field1 char(20), field2
> smallint );
> 

> The issue is that I can't find 'firebird.conf' in the embedded server
> distributed with LO. The SQL Statements can be done in macros and I find
> that way more convenient than the usual copy&paste method to insert existing
> tables in Base. In the future that could even be automated by the UI.
> 
Indeed there is no firebird.conf file in the default installation, but you can
create one.

The easiest way to create it is to download a zip installation of firebird 3
from the firebirdsql.org download page and extract the firebird.conf file with
all the options.

You can also create a plain text file, name it firebird.conf and put in it only
the settings you want to change, for example ```ExternalFileAccess = Full```.

Keep in mind that you also have to deal with OS access permissions to the
external file location. That location has to allow the *firebird* user to
access and create files in it.

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