On 31-8-2014 17:06, Geoff Worboys wrote: > I still haven't forgiven Firebird for the abrupt change of > alias ambiguity rules from v1.5 to v2.0. The particular > circumstances of the time meant that this was hugely > inconvenient to one of my largest projects. Had some migration > mechanism been provided the change over could have been handled > on a gradual basis and the project could have stayed current > with Firebird.
The firebird.conf setting RelaxedAliasChecking was that migration mechanism (and it still exists if Firebird 2.5, and afaik in Firebird 3). Mark -- Mark Rotteveel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel