In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources
the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean?
For example for op_info_database, the struct on the Firebird side has:
typedef struct p_info
{
OBJCT p_info_object; // Object of information
USHORT p_info_incarnation; // Incarnation of object
CSTRING_CONST p_info_items; // Information
CSTRING_CONST p_info_recv_items; // Receive information
ULONG p_info_buffer_length; // Target buffer length
} P_INFO;
Searching through the sources I see other occurrence of this term as
well, but I am not getting any closer to its meaning. Currently Jaybird
always sends 0 (and I believe other wire protocol implementations do as
well).
Mark
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