New Reserved Words and Changes

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Newly Reserved Words
Changed from Non-reserved to Reserved
Keywords Added as Non-reserved
Keywords No Longer Reserved
No Longer Reserved as Keywords
The following keywords have been added, or have changed status, since Firebird 1.5. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are not present in the SQL standard.

Newly Reserved Words

          BIT_LENGTH
          BOTH
          CHAR_LENGTH
          CHARACTER_LENGTH
          CLOSE
          CROSS
          FETCH
          LEADING
          LOWER
          OCTET_LENGTH
          OPEN
          ROWS
          TRAILING
          TRIM
 
Changed from Non-reserved to Reserved

          USING
 
Keywords Added as Non-reserved

          BACKUP *
          BLOCK *
          COLLATION
          COMMENT *
          DIFFERENCE *
          IIF *
          NEXT
          SCALAR_ARRAY *
          SEQUENCE
          RESTART
          RETURNING *
 
Keywords No Longer Reserved

          ACTION
          RESTRICT
          WEEKDAY *
          CASCADE
          ROLE
          YEARDAY *
          FREE_IT *
          TYPE
 
No Longer Reserved as Keywords

          BASENAME *
          GROUP_COMMIT_WAIT *
          NUM_LOG_BUFS *
          CACHE *
          LOGFILE *
          RAW_PARTITIONS *
          CHECK_POINT_LEN *
          LOG_BUF_SIZE *