[Firebird-devel] More Thoughts on Blobs

2016-03-07 Thread Jim Starkey
AmorphousDB, ironically, doesn't have blobs, per se. It has an "opaque" type, but the decision as whether a particular large object is stored as part of the record or as a separate database object. The Rdbs, Interbase, and Firebird have supported a numerical blob type to support automatic

[Firebird-devel] Thoughts on Blobs

2016-03-07 Thread Jim Starkey
Netfrastructure had a large law firm that went paperless. All correspondence was generated by the application and stored in the database as a PDF blog. All incoming correspondence was scanned in the mail room and stored in the database as a blob. The amount of daily blob data was enormous,

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing

2016-03-07 Thread Daniel Rail
Hi, At March 7, 2016, 11:31 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On 2016-03-07 15:26, Daniel Rail wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I downloaded the Windows zip files(Win32, x64 and x64_pdb). I was >> looking >> at being able to try to create a dbcrypt plugin, and I did notice >> that >> a pascal version of the code

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing

2016-03-07 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2016-03-07 15:26, Daniel Rail wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the Windows zip files(Win32, x64 and x64_pdb). I was > looking > at being able to try to create a dbcrypt plugin, and I did notice > that > a pascal version of the code was also included. But, I can't find > the > firebird.h nor

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing

2016-03-07 Thread Daniel Rail
Hi, I downloaded the Windows zip files(Win32, x64 and x64_pdb). I was looking at being able to try to create a dbcrypt plugin, and I did notice that a pascal version of the code was also included. But, I can't find the firebird.h nor the firebird.pas files, anywhere in the zip files, that would

Re: [Firebird-devel] Positioned attributes in CREATE/ALTER sequence statement

2016-03-07 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Em 07/03/2016 11:32, Dimitry Sibiryakov escreveu: > 06.03.2016 18:49, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: >> If you "create or ALTER" something, you surely need to pass a clause of >> what you want to alter. > >Even if I want to alter nothing?.. > As I said, then this is not "create or

Re: [Firebird-devel] Where can i find the include files for the new c++ api?

2016-03-07 Thread alex
07.03.2016 16:48, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes пишет: > Em 07/03/2016 08:03, alex escreveu: >> >> 07.03.2016 13:34, Rudolf Grauberger пишет: >>> Affects all versions of 3.0 (Beta, RC). >>> >>> Should i create a bug tracker item? It that a part of the component >>> API / Client Library? >>> >>

Re: [Firebird-devel] Generation of types.y

2016-03-07 Thread alex
07.03.2016 16:26, Dimitry Sibiryakov пишет: > Hello, All. > > Can someone explain what file types.y generated by parse.bat is for? > I see that it is deleted right after parser generation and can't find how > it is used > anywhere. > YACC requires all %types declaration to be put

Re: [Firebird-devel] Positioned attributes in CREATE/ALTER sequence statement

2016-03-07 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
06.03.2016 18:49, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > If you "create or ALTER" something, you surely need to pass a clause of > what you want to alter. Even if I want to alter nothing?.. In any case, I've added check for alter clauses and now it matches old behavior. May I commit? --

Re: [Firebird-devel] Where can i find the include files for the new c++ api?

2016-03-07 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Em 07/03/2016 08:03, alex escreveu: > > > 07.03.2016 13:34, Rudolf Grauberger пишет: >> Affects all versions of 3.0 (Beta, RC). >> >> Should i create a bug tracker item? It that a part of the component >> API / Client Library? >> > > LInux kits _do_ include file include/firebird/Interface.h. >

[Firebird-devel] Generation of types.y

2016-03-07 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
Hello, All. Can someone explain what file types.y generated by parse.bat is for? I see that it is deleted right after parser generation and can't find how it is used anywhere. -- WBR, SD. -- Transform

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-5137) Allow "create or alter sequence" without parameters

2016-03-07 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov (JIRA)
Allow "create or alter sequence" without parameters --- Key: CORE-5137 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5137 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Improvement Components:

Re: [Firebird-devel] Where can i find the include files for the new c++ api?

2016-03-07 Thread Rudolf Grauberger
> LInux kits _do_ include file include/firebird/Interface.h. > If it's missing in windows kits that's a bug in windows installer which > should be fixed. > Please create platform-specific ticket for windows. > In the windows installer and zip kits the directory "firebird" doesn't exists > in

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird V4 roadmap?

2016-03-07 Thread liviuslivius
> > maybe some voting system what first to do ;-) > > Tracker has the voting system and votes are considered when planning. > > > Dmitry > You know - not all go into the tracker and not all pepople look into the tracker. This was anly hint - but mayby somethink like previous questionnaire

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird V4 roadmap?

2016-03-07 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
07.03.2016 13:14, liviuslivius wrote: >>> is somewhere some "initial" roadmap for Firebird v4. >> >> It will be published when ready. Soon. > > maybe some voting system what first to do ;-) Tracker has the voting system and votes are considered when planning. Dmitry

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB/Java plugin security

2016-03-07 Thread alex
06.03.2016 19:06, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes пишет: > Hi! > > Original FB/Java plugin had a security database where SYSDBA could > define JAAS permissions per users. > > Since Java can read files and do bad things, it's SYSDBA (server admin) > to define these permissions. And since was SYSDBA

Re: [Firebird-devel] Where can i find the include files for the new c++ api?

2016-03-07 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
07.03.2016 12:03, alex wrote: > LInux kits _do_ include file include/firebird/Interface.h. > If it's missing in windows kits that's a bug in windows installer which > should be fixed. IMHO, examples must not include internal Firebird header such as firebird.h and fb_atomic.h. Either make

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-5134) Samples of dbcrypt-related plugins contain references to internal files

2016-03-07 Thread Alexander Peshkov (JIRA)
Samples of dbcrypt-related plugins contain references to internal files --- Key: CORE-5134 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5134 Project: Firebird Core Issue

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird V4 roadmap?

2016-03-07 Thread liviuslivius
> > is somewhere some "initial" roadmap for Firebird v4. > > It will be published when ready. Soon. > maybe some voting system what first to do ;-) > > And is some plans to eliminate 255 contexts limit in the near feature? > > Yes, I will create a separate thread for that. > great news :)

[Firebird-devel] Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing

2016-03-07 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
For those who missed it ;-) -- Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing. This Release Candidate demonstrates the complete set of features and improvements developed

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird V4 roadmap?

2016-03-07 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
07.03.2016 10:04, liviuslivius wrote: > > is somewhere some "initial" roadmap for Firebird v4. It will be published when ready. Soon. > And is some plans to eliminate 255 contexts limit in the near feature? Yes, I will create a separate thread for that. Dmitry

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB/Java plugin security

2016-03-07 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
06.03.2016 17:06, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > Should the FB/Java security database not mention only user names but > databases too, and how? IMHO, Java security settings must be organized at server level. May be in plugin config file. Then, after implementation of CORE-4482, they