On LO 6.4.6.2 (on Mac OS), I also get problems similar to yours and others have had.
I get a somewhat different error message after running (from the normal Queries window) your own query code to create the new table. See below:
… but I ignore (close) it.
IMPORTANT NOTES
- The new table does NOT show up in the table listing until I do a REFRESH TABLES (under the VIEW menu and only enabled in the Tables window). You must also close a BLANK window that opens up at that point (at least on my setup)
- IMPORTANT: If you close the database without doing the REFRESH step above, and then re-open it, there will be no table saved! (And also NO warning to SAVE the Base file before closure!)
- Base does NOT update the Firebird database automatically like it does with HSQLDB (at least for table creation). It seems to require a a REFRESH to do that. Also see the above-mentioned POST and the answer given by Ratslinger
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