Good morning, I'm a long standing Firebird User since FB1.5! My interest in
FB4 is primarily replication, which I have been unable to get working. I
have also noticed some errors in the documentation that I note below.
I have manually downloaded the 32bit version and and run it as an
application (I have FB2.3 and also FB3 running as a service locally.)
*Doc anomaly 1*
install_windows_manually.txt
Line 46 fbserver.exe -a
should be
firebird.exe -a
As a test I have tried to get asynchronous replication working. Is this
even possible when Master and Replica is on the same Server? I have two
databases; FB4Test.fdb and FB4TestReplica.fdb o the same (localhost)
server. The replica I created by copying theFB4Test.FDB whilst the server
was not running.
I followed the release notes and changed the replication.conf as follows
database = D:\Users\Peter\Documents\FB4Data\FB4TEST.FDB
{
log_directory = /FB4Test/chlog
log_archive_directory = /FB4Test/archlog
log_archive_timeout = 10
verbose_logging = true
}
database = D:\Users\Peter\Documents\FB4Data\FB4TESTReplica.FDB
{
log_source_directory = /incominglogs/
verbose_logging = true
}
I also ran all the necessary DDL statements and run GFIX as prescribed
*GFIX - Doc anomaly 2*
Release Notes
I found empirically that
Page 28
gfix -replica read-only <database>
should be
gfix -replica read_only <database>
Also page 137
gfix -replica read-only <database>
should be
gfix -replica read_only <database>
Probably references to read-write should be read_write but haven't tried
this.
*GFIX - Returned error*
gfix -replica read_only D:\Users\Peter\Documents\FB4Data\FB4TESTReplica.FDB
Unable to perform operation
-System privilege USE_GFIX_UTILITY is missing
When I modify data in the Master database the following error appears in
the Firebird.log
TOSHPJG Tue Feb 23 06:02:15 2021
Operating system call FindFirstFile failed. Error code 3
No Journals are created
No replication log exists
*Formal release*
I am hoping to use FB4 in a production environment soon but cannot do this
with a RC release version. When will version 1 be released for production?
Please assist
kind regards
Peter
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