On 1-7-2014 20:56, Ann Harrison wrote:
>> In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources
>> the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean?
>
> For cross-version compatibilty, most objects have a version number, sometimes 
> called "incarnation".  Objects that have not changed will be zero.   At least 
> that's what it meant originally.  The header file that declares the object 
> should have all versions.

I am looking at (for example) Request::send and Request::startAndSend in 
interface.cpp and I am not sure if that is how it is used there (but I 
haven't been able to find what the parameter level does).

Mark
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