Mark Rotteveel wrote: > 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). Hey, it's my grudge, I'll carry it as long as I want! ;-) More seriously, it didn't come into being until v2.1 did it? And was then backported to v2.0. I can imagine the same sort of thing happening with this source code deletion unless the issue is addressed now. -- Geoff Worboys Telesis Computing Pty Ltd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
