Re: [Firebird-devel] FB4 - Linux snapshots

2019-02-25 Thread Gabor Boros
2018. 12. 03. 11:06 keltezéssel, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel írta: On 12/3/18 12:17 PM, Gabor Boros wrote: Hi All, The current Windows snapshots of 4.0 are 4.0.0.1324 but the Linux just 4.0.0.1258. Please fix/update it. Build fails due to too old (4.8) ICU. IMO it's also time to

Re: [Firebird-devel] Start transaction from base transaction

2019-02-25 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Hi! As part of READ COMMITTED READ CONSISTENCY, it was added context variables (under RDB$GET_CONTEXT's SYSTEM namespace) GLOBAL_CN and SNAPSHOT_CN. GLOBAL_CN: Most current value of global Commit Number counter SNAPSHOT_CN: Value of Commit Number of currently database snapshot: either

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/02/2019 15:12, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: page 125 in relnotes 3.0.3 (and I believe not far from it in other versions): Bear in mind in my case I was provided with 3.0.2 via SUSE and even finding the release notes was an exercise. I'm fairly sure that this said

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2/25/19 5:51 PM, Lester Caine wrote: On 25/02/2019 14:05, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: Then lets change this question to why the security database in the distribution isn't initialized for SRP (ie having the PLG$SRP table, maybe other things needed). Would it be possible to

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2/25/19 5:51 PM, Lester Caine wrote: On 25/02/2019 14:05, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: Then lets change this question to why the security database in the distribution isn't initialized for SRP (ie having the PLG$SRP table, maybe other things needed). Would it be possible to

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/02/2019 14:05, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: Then lets change this question to why the security database in the distribution isn't initialized for SRP (ie having the PLG$SRP table, maybe other things needed). Would it be possible to initialize it as part of the distribution

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2/25/19 4:45 PM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 25-2-2019 13:51, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2/24/19 10:52 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: The security database inside the distribution is already initialized with a Legacy_Auth SYSDBA only. I'm not sure why the same can't be done for SRP

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
25.02.2019 15:51, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: The security database inside the distribution is already initialized with a Legacy_Auth SYSDBA only. I'm not sure why the same can't be done for SRP (or at least: isn't done for SRP). First half of an answer is very simple - in order

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6012) Possible server/utilities hang because of infinity loop in AbstractString::vprintf

2019-02-25 Thread Artyom Smirnov (JIRA)
Possible server/utilities hang because of infinity loop in AbstractString::vprintf -- Key: CORE-6012 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6012 Project:

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2/24/19 10:52 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 23-2-2019 20:56, Lester Caine wrote: On 23/02/2019 19:21, Paul Reeves wrote:    It is linked to the fact that rpm installs don't allow interaction at install time, so the security database is not initialised.     IIRC, rpm install 2.5 used to

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6011) Enabling legacy authentication in Windows installer leads to less secur config than possible

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2/23/19 7:54 PM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 23.02.2019 17:51, Paul Reeves wrote:   It is linked to the fact that rpm installs don't allow interaction at install time, so the security database is not initialised.   IIRC, rpm install 2.5 used to initialize security database using random

Re: [Firebird-devel] Stable distributions ...

2019-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/02/2019 11:14, Mark Rotteveel wrote: You need to explicitly enable hggit to allow TortoiseHg to work with git (and similar for subversion), see https://mcmblog.azurewebsites.net/using-tortoisehg-with-git/ Maybe you need to enable it again? I've been installing hggit for many years ...

Re: [Firebird-devel] Stable distributions ...

2019-02-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 25-2-2019 12:00, Lester Caine wrote: on the whole it's now stable - except I can't get access to github via TortoiseHG which has been my stable access route for MANY years and all my local code tracking is on Mercurial in parallel with Git or SVN as required for the third party libraries. I

Re: [Firebird-devel] Stable distributions ...

2019-02-25 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 25/02/2019 08:00, Lester Caine wrote: > > > Keeping PHP working with Firebird is a major headache anyway and the > interface does need some attention from someone more capable on the C > side than me but simply working through the Firebird side what is the > SAFE way to update the installation

Re: [Firebird-devel] Setting time zone bind through DPB?

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2/23/19 2:39 PM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 18-2-2019 12:59, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2/18/19 2:21 PM, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 16/02/2019 12:57, Mark Rotteveel wrote: BTW: similar arguments could be made for the SET DECFLOAT options, but I don't have a need

[Firebird-devel] Stable distributions ...

2019-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
Currently I have several systems running FB2.5 or earlier along with stable versions of Nginx ( replacing Apache ) and PHP5.x Some are even still running on XP because of hardware that later versions of windows will not support, although it seems the key there is only to run 32bit versions of