> On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:43 AM, brian br...@meadows.pair.com [firebird-support] > <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > Thanks folks, particularly to Ann - that bit about the way Firebird > arranges the indexes itself was the clincher. It seems difficult to > find a full manual for Firebird unless I speak Russian (I don't!), all > there seems to be on the main site are updates - unless this is meant > to mean the full manual updated to version 2.5, in which case it's a > strange (and misleading) way to put it.
Long standing problem. When Inprise released the InterBase sources, they didn't release either the doc set sources or the test system. InterBase/Firebird was already a very large product and creating an open source doc set was daunting. Helen Borrie wrote a very complete book for APress, which has been updated and is available on-line, but not free. There's a project to translate the Russian book to English. Good luck, Ann
