Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we made things happen
Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the server:database repository and get Firebird 2.0.4
As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, packages will be there too.
Don’t silently turn your outer joins into inner joins
Surprised by outer joins not returning the expected results? Looks like they behave like an inner join?
You are probably messing with the join and the where clause