Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Alex
On 04/15/2014 09:49 PM, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 15.04.2014 21:30, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > >>> If show.epp/extract.epp is cleaned up to support v3.0 / ODS12 only, then >>> requesting objects existing in v2.0 / ODS11 may fail. This is the whole >>> point of this discussion. >> Do anybody have exa

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Claudio Valderrama C.
> -Original Message- > From: Dimitry Sibiryakov [mailto:s...@ibphoenix.com] > Sent: Martes, 15 de Abril de 2014 12:00 > >The only version-depended part of isql is metadata > extraction. I don't think that there > is a point to worry about its compatibility. I think that extracting

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
15.04.2014 21:30, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >> If show.epp/extract.epp is cleaned up to support v3.0 / ODS12 only, then >> requesting objects existing in v2.0 / ODS11 may fail. This is the whole >> point of this discussion. > > Do anybody have examples of what will fail and how?.. Supporting v3 /

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
15.04.2014 19:11, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > If show.epp/extract.epp is cleaned up to support v3.0 / ODS12 only, then > requesting objects existing in v2.0 / ODS11 may fail. This is the whole > point of this discussion. Do anybody have examples of what will fail and how?.. -- WBR, SD. --

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
15.04.2014 20:23, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > And they will work as long as one requests objects that existed in previous > versions. If show.epp/extract.epp is cleaned up to support v3.0 / ODS12 only, then requesting objects existing in v2.0 / ODS11 may fail. This is the whole point of this d

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
15.04.2014 18:17, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > There's also another one - family of SHOW commands. And they're expected > to work as long as you're able to connect to some database. And they will work as long as one requests objects that existed in previous versions. Those who ask for list of pack

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
15.04.2014 19:59, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > The only version-depended part of isql is metadata extraction. I don't think > that there > is a point to worry about its compatibility. There's also another one - family of SHOW commands. And they're expected to work as long as you're able to conne

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Leyne, Sean
>The only version-depended part of isql is metadata extraction. I don't > think > that there is a point to worry about its compatibility. If something is "compatible" it needs to be compatible in **every respect**. Otherwise, it is not compatible. Sean --

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
The only version-depended part of isql is metadata extraction. I don't think that there is a point to worry about its compatibility. -- WBR, SD. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Datab

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Björn Reimer
May be it's possible to rename isql in isql30 when you will drop support for older fb versions. Same to other command line tools especially like gbak so it's possible to have more than one version in environment in different paths. Björn -- Björn Reimer - RRZE --

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
Claudio, > People, what is position of the team regarding isql v3's ability to connect > to older server versions? > > - isql v3 only supports FB3 > - isql v3 only supports FB3 and FB2.5 > - isql v3 should support the whole FB2.X series. I'd say ISQL should support *at least* those versions that

Re: [Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Leyne, Sean
Claudio, > - isql v3 only supports FB3 This would be fine with me. Although it had a different historical purpose, I only see isql as a 'debugging' and 'scripting' tool for local databases. Someone needing to support multiple FB versions could create copies of isql binaries (ie. isql_25.exe

[Firebird-devel] ADO.NET provider for Firebird 4.1.5.0 is ready

2014-04-15 Thread Jiri Cincura
ADO.NET provider for Firebird 4.1.5.0 is ready: http://blog.cincura.net/233450-ado-net-provider-for-firebird-4-1-5-0-is-ready/ -- Jiri {x2} Cincura (x2develop.com founder) http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] Created: (CORE-4369) consistency check in MERGE with more data

2014-04-15 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
14.04.2014 22:03, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > But don't the error can happen in another situations, say, subsequent > updates? Having looked a bit deeper I'm sure that this error cannot happen on subsequent updates because they will produce following sequence of events: update->upd

[Firebird-devel] isql v3 with older servers

2014-04-15 Thread Claudio Valderrama C.
People, what is position of the team regarding isql v3's ability to connect to older server versions? - isql v3 only supports FB3 - isql v3 only supports FB3 and FB2.5 - isql v3 should support the whole FB2.X series. Of course, the cleanest code happens if we only support the same version of serv

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4391) Access violation in fbclient when using Legacy API

2014-04-15 Thread Simonov Denis (JIRA)
Access violation in fbclient when using Legacy API -- Key: CORE-4391 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4391 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Bug Components: API / Clie

Re: [Firebird-devel] Info : Firebird 2.5 build test problem

2014-04-15 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 04/15/14 11:24, Philippe Makowski wrote: > Hi, > > seems that's something wrong happened in 2.5 branch since few days, > the build test failed : > > ../gen/firebird/bin/gpre_current -n -z -gds_cxx -raw -ids -cxx > ../src/dsql/metd.epp ../temp/boot/dsql/metd.cpp > gpre version LI-V2.5.3.26754 Fir

[Firebird-devel] Info : Firebird 2.5 build test problem

2014-04-15 Thread Philippe Makowski
Hi, seems that's something wrong happened in 2.5 branch since few days, the build test failed : ../gen/firebird/bin/gpre_current -n -z -gds_cxx -raw -ids -cxx ../src/dsql/metd.epp ../temp/boot/dsql/metd.cpp gpre version LI-V2.5.3.26754 Firebird 2.5 I/O error during "open" operation for file "yac