[Firebird-devel] building FB3 for valgrind

2016-06-17 Thread Paul Reeves
ror perhaps? Should I file a bug report? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interf

[Firebird-devel] isc_dsql_execute_immediate and FB3

2016-05-18 Thread Paul Reeves
rrect because it allowed misuse of the function. However, if we are going to throw an error I think it should be more explicit. Perhaps something along the lines of: 'Select statements cannot be execute by isc_dsql_execute_immediate' Shall I log this as a bug / enhancement request ?

[Firebird-devel] Multiple instances of Firebird 3 on linux

2016-05-09 Thread Paul Reeves
he -e parameter? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights

Re: [Firebird-devel] [Firebird-checkins] [FirebirdSQL/firebird] 161500: Deploy fbclient to by default.

2016-04-01 Thread paul reeves
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:05:17 +0200 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 01.04.2016 15:59, paul reeves wrote: > >> >What about firebird.msg ? > > That has always been a problem. Perhaps we could add that to ? > > Although I'm not sure about that. We would have a problem w

Re: [Firebird-devel] [Firebird-checkins] [FirebirdSQL/firebird] 161500: Deploy fbclient to by default.

2016-04-01 Thread paul reeves
> Ah, I missed that commit. So we could have started phasing out the guardian since v2.0. :-) I'll roll back that change later today. I've been having internet connection problems and haven't quite recovered. Paul -- Paul

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 & W7E

2015-11-09 Thread Paul Reeves
packages, and copy nearby an application. > Yes, perhaps a distributable client package would be a good idea. Or at the very least, some documentation on how to distribute the client with an application. I'll see what I can do. Paul -- Paul Reeves http

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 & W7E

2015-11-09 Thread Paul Reeves
default? Should we deploy MSVC10 runtime assemblies? As far as I can tell then are already available on most/all systems that are supported by Microsoft anyway. Feedback is needed. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 and authentication and security3.fdb

2015-11-05 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 13:49:26 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 11/04/2015 11:45 AM, Paul Reeves wrote: > > So the question is this - can the authentication method be switched > > between > > srp and legacy without modifiying security3.fdb? > > Paul, switching authenticat

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB3 and authentication and security3.fdb

2015-11-04 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 04 Nov 2015 16:25:22 Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 09:45:27 +0100, Paul Reeves > > So the question is this - can the authentication method be switched > > between > > srp and legacy without modifiying security3.fdb? > > You can have two s

[Firebird-devel] FB3 and authentication and security3.fdb

2015-11-04 Thread Paul Reeves
modifiying security3.fdb? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] ExternalFileAccess in v.2.5.4

2015-10-07 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2015 14:57:48 Helen Borrie wrote: > > ExternalFileAccess = Restrict 'H:\externalfiles'; > (tried it with and without the semicolon) > Is h: a mapped networked drive or is it local to the host? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Suppor

Re: [Firebird-devel] instsvc and ServerMode

2015-09-17 Thread Paul Reeves
ee any problem with continuing to provide that support. Modifying the config file isn't the most challenging of programming tasks. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- M

Re: [Firebird-devel] instsvc and ServerMode

2015-09-17 Thread Paul Reeves
Out of interest - why do you think the cpl applet must die? > For v3, I'd say that the installer should be the only tool touching > configuration file(s). > OK. But that raises another issue which I will discuss in a new thread - probably tomorrow. Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] Replacing `instsvc`

2015-09-17 Thread Paul Reeves
7;m really more concerned to know if we are losing a feature from instsvc that people rely on and expect. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure

[Firebird-devel] instsvc and ServerMode

2015-09-17 Thread Paul Reeves
perhaps via the services manager. That way it would be available to instsvc and the cpl applet on Windows as well as being available to other platforms. The third question leads on from this - 'Do we want to add a more generic method of updating any entry in firebird.conf?' Th

Re: [Firebird-devel] firebird.msg

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Reeves
ecimal units. So I guess as long as I understand the units of measurment I'm using that government economist job might still be open. The pay would have to be an order of magnitude better, mind you, and with a good early retirement package. Paul -

Re: [Firebird-devel] firebird.msg

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Reeves
commits are made by diffing the dev tree to a fresh checkout, and then carefully copying over the changes to the fresh checkout so that each change gets committed separately with correct documentation. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.c

Re: [Firebird-devel] firebird.msg

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 16 September 2015 11:35:02 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 16.09.2015 12:04, Paul Reeves пишет: > > I just noticed the size of firebird.msg in Fb 3 trunk - it seems to be > > around 550 Mb. In Fb 2.5 it is around 150 Mb and in the previous beta > > releases of Fb 3 it

[Firebird-devel] firebird.msg

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Reeves
I just noticed the size of firebird.msg in Fb 3 trunk - it seems to be around 550 Mb. In Fb 2.5 it is around 150 Mb and in the previous beta releases of Fb 3 it is also around 150Mb. What's happened? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Fir

[Firebird-devel] fbtrace, icu and linux

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Reeves
ay need some attention. When the tracker is back online I guess I should log this as a bug. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at

[Firebird-devel] Parsing fbtrace.conf

2015-07-28 Thread Paul Reeves
example postfix is specifically designed to allow this: myparam = x < snip lots of config > myparam = y and the final value used for myparam will be y. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Fi

Re: [Firebird-devel] windows installer and authentication

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 14 July 2015 19:00:59 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 13.07.2015 16:07, Paul Reeves wrote: > > Obviously I am missing something huge here - if we don't provide legacy > > authentication how and where do we create sysdba? > > The same way (gsec?) and the same location

Re: [Firebird-devel] windows installer and authentication

2015-07-13 Thread Paul Reeves
n of install process. Obviously I am missing something huge here - if we don't provide legacy authentication how and where do we create sysdba? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird --

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-07-01 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 01 July 2015 11:34:08 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 24.06.2015 11:50, Paul Reeves wrote: > > The 64-bit windows build of the employee db is broken. > > Can you confirm that the issue is gone now? > > Yes. Adriano supplied a fix and tagged it for Beta 2. I've check

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-25 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 25 June 2015 10:56:24 Paul Reeves wrote: > > I'll do a 32-bit build and compare. > OK, it doesn't look as if gpre is the problem. The employee.c generated is identical on 32 and 64-bit. So it must be related to the database that was created. I'll do so

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-25 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 19:22:15 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > On 24/06/2015 13:42, Paul Reeves wrote: > > No such luck for me :-( > > > > I just did a fresh checkout and the Win64 build still fails with the same > > errors I reported earlier. > > Pl

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-24 Thread Paul Reeves
in gfix I can't confirm - examples build runs without problems > for me (checkout and build 20 minutes ago). > > No such luck for me :-( I just did a fresh checkout and the Win64 build still fails with the same errors I reported earlier. Paul --

[Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-24 Thread Paul Reeves
1 we saw this in empbuild.c: isc_vtov ((char*) job_code, (char*) isc_36.isc_40, 6); isc_vtov ((char*) job_country, (char*) isc_36.isc_37, 16); Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Fir

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 12 March 2015 13:39:20 Roman Simakov wrote: > 2015-03-12 15:19 GMT+03:00 Paul Reeves : > > It is quite funny really how > > many people have latched onto this program, found it 'just works' and > > made a few modifications to it thinking they have a usef

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
atter. I guess it is time for me to see if I can get it out of my private CVS tree and put it on github. Then we can take a look at this subject in more detail. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
r behaviour to use sequences. > If you go that route, use of the term TPC-C violates the terms of the > Transaction Processing Council's trademark which requires an independent > audit. So use the open source alternative, DBT2. Thanks for the correction - I must get i

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
r in CVS or SVN. By the time I was ready to give them my changes the code had been refactored and as there was no CVS tree there wasn't really anywhere for me to send them. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird --

Re: [Firebird-devel] Commits visible in our main page.

2015-03-10 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 12:24:03 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 10.03.2015 12:12, Paul Reeves wrote: > > AFAIK, you just need the one copy. You can switch views as much as you > > want. > >So, if I want to have "clean" Firebird copy, "modified" copy

Re: [Firebird-devel] Commits visible in our main page.

2015-03-10 Thread Paul Reeves
he same as git but marks files with the committed timestamp. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel

Re: [Firebird-devel] Windows build

2015-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
> > I mean, make_boot/make_all copy files to output_ but IDE run files > from temp\\\firebird... > > Do any of you have non-committed script that do the things or I'm > missing something? > > run_all.bat perhaps? Paul -- Paul Reeves htt

Re: [Firebird-devel] Examples broken in Windows

2015-01-27 Thread Paul Reeves
27;s not a thing recently changed. > fbclient.lib was derived from the name of the .lib generated by the borland compiler. Try fbclient_ms.lib. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Dive in

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fixing database to use it with changed ICU version.

2014-12-11 Thread Paul Reeves
it) and even marked as the recommended solution, but it is not always practical or desirable or even possible to do that. I think an option to reset the database via gfix would still be useful. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3.0 Beta - How to intialize security db

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Reeves
least it would create a working system and switching between the two just requires an uninstall/install. o Give up on trying to test fb3 on the same box as fb2.5. VMs are cheap and easy to set up. I'm sure we will resolve the problems with running fb3 simultaneously with earlier versions

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3.0 Beta 1

2014-12-08 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 08 December 2014 15:43:30 Werner wrote: > On 12/8/2014 9:28, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Monday 08 December 2014 09:04:16 Werner wrote: > >> I would like to start testing FB 3. > >> > >> Does the installer allow installation side by side with FB 2.5? &

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3.0 Beta 1

2014-12-08 Thread Paul Reeves
but you will have to configure firebird 3 manually if you want to keep an existing firebird installation. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Fre

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re:UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
it recently I just installed the tarball a couple of times. (This was with 2.5). Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re:UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
like fb.conf etc. And there are also vars for placing the lock manager and message file. Something else to add to the 'to do list when I have some spare time'. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird --

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re: UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
t; I was thinking more of configuration options without having to go through > the config files. ;) > Yep, that is what I'm thinking about, too. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re:UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
different levels. And it is even worse on linux. There, we are planning to move towards distro-specific packages and afaict, multiple installs are just not possible at the moment. I know I've had to do it manually. I don't know what the situation is on other platforms such as the m

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re: UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Reeves
a service and then start an instance of fb as an app on port 3051 there is no way that the installer will detect that instance. And if the service is not running and it detects that you are installing over an existing v3 install it will assume you are doing an in-place upgrade. I&#

[Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re: Using Firebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Reeves
(Which doesn't mean to say that progress cannot be made in the meantime.) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] Using Firebird 3, beta 1 - installer report

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Reeves
one place, but it does mean that we are writing to files such as the log and the security database and these should not be in %ProgramFiles% and this should be a read-only directory. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users o

Re: [Firebird-devel] New Interface

2014-08-14 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 14 August 2014 13:28:33 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 14.08.2014 11:34, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > > HP C/aC++ Version A.06.26 > >Alpha version?.. > More to the point - Itanium? An ARM-based test would be useful. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com S

Re: [Firebird-devel] C++ and the API

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/rlsnotes/Firebird-3.0.0_Alph >a2-ReleaseNotes.pdf > > The document may not be a phantom but that web server is. I can get to http://web.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/ but all but one of the folders underneath seem to be inaccessible :-( Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] libfbembed.so static for android

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Reeves
e than showing cat videos. We need to move on from this idea that they are inferior in some way. If anything they are the future of computing. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Learn

Re: [Firebird-devel] MySQL versus Firebird

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Reeves
Obviously the massive interest from firebird devs has overwhelmed the site. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU Data table customization

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 19 February 2014 16:23:44 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >As said Aleksey Kovazin, Internet traffic today is cheap. Why to care > about size and strip anything?.. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporti

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU Data table customization

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Reeves
eem to be a lot of work, and difficult to maintain. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud

Re: [Firebird-devel] Update ICU in Windows

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 17 February 2014 09:38:44 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 02/15/14 11:45, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2014 18:24:40 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > >> 14.02.2014 18:16, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > >>> If not, build will not be simp

Re: [Firebird-devel] Update ICU in Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Reeves
t strictly true. Obviously a compiler is needed for the build and microsoft don't supply those with the O/S, but neither unixtools nor Inno Setup are necessary to build firebord. They are only used for packaging. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporti

Re: [Firebird-devel] Created: (CORE-4336) Firebird.msg is not installed with client

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 13 February 2014 17:06:32 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 13.02.2014 16:48, Paul Reeves wrote: > > Have you tried setting FIREBIRD_MSG? > >Do you mean from my application before calling LoadLibrary()? Yes. >No. I have no idea what value I would have to assign

Re: [Firebird-devel] Created: (CORE-4336) Firebird.msg is not installed with client

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Reeves
WITHOUT breaking up any other existing Firebird > installation. Have you tried setting FIREBIRD_MSG? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Intr

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Reeves
s\threaded mode from there. > Yes, that would be my preference. No -m switch and remove SharedN options from fb.conf. Users would be able to set default SS or CS at server level and override at database level with SS, CS or exclusive single-user attachment. Paul -- Paul Reeves h

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 30 January 2014 09:56:50 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > > We introduce a separate (very thin) fblistener.exe (fbremote or > whatever) binary that acts similar to xinetd on posix. Or maybe we have finally found a reason to keep the guardian ? (At least on windows.) Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 29 January 2014 17:20:16 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 29.01.2014 18:37, Paul Reeves wrote: > > I guess what we really need is to document in firebird.conf how the -m > > switch affects the other two settings. There would seem to be a total of > > eight combinations.

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
true * Super with shared access - also illegal Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security int

[Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
un SuperClassic under FB3 on Windows? AFAICT it is not possible. I don't mind - SuperClassic seems to share the worst features of SuperServer and ClassicServer, and we should officially deprecate in FB3 (imo.) But the questions will be asked - how can we run SC under FB3? and does it make a

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-19 Thread Paul Reeves
word masterkey action_db_stats dbname \ employee sts_table command_line employee As usual 'Unknown switch' is the error, no matter which order the switches are passed, so it seems as if both tags are currently broken in svcmgr. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supp

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
what does work, what is broken, and what is not meant to work so that it can be documented (and fixed, where relevant.) And also to provide some more examples. fbsvcmgr is quite neat - but it isn't well documented and working out how to use it requires a lot of trial and error. Paul -- P

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
fbsvcmgr service_mgr user sysdba password masterkey action_get_fb_log but it ought to. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your busi

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
mgr. See this bug report for more details: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4298 Alex knows what I'm talking about, which is how he discovered that the isc_spb_sts_table is broken. So those info_ tags *should* work. (imo.) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Suppor

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
d_users info_stdin That is about as far as I got. I have looked a bit at the gbak/gfix equivalents and they mostly seem to work, but I haven't yet had a chance to do an exhaustive study. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
ld be automatically included in gstat -a. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4298) fbsvcmgr doesn't recognise sts_record_versions and other sts switches

2013-12-13 Thread Paul Reeves (JIRA)
Issue Type: Bug Components: SVCMGR Affects Versions: 2.5.2 Update 1 Environment: Windows, Linux Reporter: Paul Reeves Priority: Minor This : fbsvcmgr service_mgr user sysdba password masterkey action_db_stats dbname employee sts_record_versions fails

Re: [Firebird-devel] make packages and rpms

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 21 October 2013 14:20:29 Philippe Makowski wrote: > > yes, and by the way I don't really understand why you want to build > these rpm > It is not for me :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting

Re: [Firebird-devel] make packages and rpms

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Reeves
firebird2/gen/RPM/BUILDROOT/FirebirdCS-2.5.2.26541-0.x86_64 ++ dirname /srv/firebird/fb25_private/firebird2/gen/RPM/BUILDROOT/FirebirdCS-2.5.2.26541-0.x86_64 ie, it deletes the directory and re-creates it. so I guess I need to dig around in the %install script.

[Firebird-devel] make packages and rpms

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Reeves
M/BUILDROOT. Anyone got any ideas? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance.

Re: [Firebird-devel] gsec-issues with FB3.0

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 16 July 2013 15:17:49 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 07/15/13 18:19, Paul Reeves wrote: > > One problem I found is that I couldn't log in to an FB3 server on windows > > from a linux fb2.5 client. How is that done without the legacy > > authentication? > > N

Re: [Firebird-devel] gsec-issues with FB3.0

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
er it is the default click through option or not. Users are not against change, they just like to do it at their own pace. Hopefully the feedback we get during alpha/beta will help us make the right decision. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoeni

Re: [Firebird-devel] gsec-issues with FB3.0

2013-07-04 Thread Paul Reeves
ing... Yes, very interesting. I saw that error recently. I was trying to access gsec before I had added SYSDBA. Once SYSDBA was added and I managed to login correctly as SYSDBA (not easy) the message went away. Presumably you have set AuthServer correctly? And restarted the server per

Re: [Firebird-devel] (Double) Metaphone?

2013-03-30 Thread Paul Reeves
s, my initial reaction is that there needs to be a way of loading the function according to the character set, otherwise it is limited to data stored in the latin alphabet. But the principal is good. Paul -- Paul Reeves http:

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird new release is needed

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Reeves
ps even triple before the end of the decade! It can't be allowed - if nothing else firebird stands for prudent version numbering. We must resist this temptation - look where it got firefox. :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibph

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird new release is needed

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Reeves
. So just releasing a patched 2.5.2 as 2.5.3 will cause even more confusion. Sigh. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps fas

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-13 Thread Paul Reeves
> > also mysql is configured the same way from start > sudo cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf | grep 127.0.0.1 > bind-address = 127.0.0.1 > > > ps: > by default firebird in debian/ubuntu is listening on *.gds_db > What is the problem that this solves? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://w

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3, time to rename conflict names ?

2012-11-17 Thread Paul Reeves
tabbed command completion. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support-- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, s

Re: [Firebird-devel] Tips on debugging deadlocks ?

2012-10-16 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 16 Oct 2012 21:55:55 marius adrian popa wrote: > Jiri needs some help in this area > https://twitter.com/cincura_net/status/258247935626727425 > I'm all for being concise but perhaps using an environment that isn't restricted to 140 characters might help :-) P

Re: [Firebird-devel] Restore improvements?

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Reeves
8? Or even set it to 10240? 75 is way too low. I'm not even sure it makes sense as a default for classic these days if server is 64 bit. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support--

Re: [Firebird-devel] Jaybird migration to Subversion completed

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Reeves
On Sunday 05 Aug 2012 17:59:07 Paul Vinkenoog wrote: > > Congratulations, Mark. It's always a relief when these precarious operations > turn out right. Seconded, and there is nothing quite like that cold sweat down the back when things go disastrously wrong :-) Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] Missing SecurityDatabase in firebird.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Reeves
of databases.conf having precedence over aliases.conf? Obviously we can document aliases.conf as deprecated. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Live Security Virtual Confere

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
s the end user is concerned, which was not obvious at the beginning. Overall I haven't yet found a compelling need to move my local code from cvs, but if I did I think I would look at git before svn. Interesting that you prefer hg over git. Maybe I should have a look at that someday. Pau

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Reeves
tter if the env var was not necessary. But at least for now I can get on fixing the packaging for Fb 3 on windows. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Live Security Vir

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Reeves
ngs up and add it to the batch file and test more thoroughly. Thanks, Alex. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will c

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 17:18:19 Paul Reeves wrote: > However, if the files are copied as I mentioned above it all works. (Ie, > empbuild.exe builds empbuild.fdb.) > Whoops, I meant to write empbuild.exe builds employee.fdb. empbuild.fdb already exists. Paul -- Paul Re

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 16:21:25 Paul Reeves wrote: > > But that reminded me about Alex's earlier comment - engine12.dll is needed > but is not being found,even though the path is set. > So, to summarize, I've got empbuild.exe to work by copying fbclient.dll to the em

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
or the reminder. Only problem is that fbembed.dll doesn't exist in Fb 3.0 :-) But that reminded me about Alex's earlier comment - engine12.dll is needed but is not being found,even though the path is set. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 16:48:40 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 06/06/12 14:43, Paul Reeves wrote: > > How does embedded work in FB3? > > > > I'm wondering because make_examples.bat fails unless fb3 is running. It > > would be nice to build the employee database usin

[Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
How does embedded work in FB3? I'm wondering because make_examples.bat fails unless fb3 is running. It would be nice to build the employee database using the newly built engine but I can't see how to do that at the moment. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Spec

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-3721) changeDBAPassword.sh picks up the ISC_ variables if set.

2012-01-09 Thread Paul Reeves (JIRA)
Components: Installation Affects Versions: 2.5.1 Environment: Linux, perhaps all environments that attempt to change the SYSDBA password at installation time. Reporter: Paul Reeves Priority: Minor If ISC_USER/ISC_PASSWORD are set the changeDBAPassword.sh script fails

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Reeves
confused users. At the moment I would suspect a majority type masterkey because it is the documented default *and* it is a meaningful word. And there is probably a large minority who think they are being clever by only typing eight letters because they know the ninth letter is ignored. Paul -

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Reeves
,d & r). A lot of them will not even know there is a command-line. Even then, one of the design goals of the installer is to install a fully working system from the installer itself. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Spec

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Reeves
ed the installer would need to actually initialise the security database. The best way to do this would be to provide a batch file that takes the uname and pw as params. That way the zip package can share the same mechanism. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird s

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Reeves
word (which could be masterkey). If no password is provide then the installation would fail. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools

Re: [Firebird-devel] Trace API - What's the unit for number of (reads |fetches ...)

2011-11-15 Thread Paul Reeves
it in fb.conf and using firebird to do all the caching. It was not the result I expected but I hadn't considered that the results may depend on different versions of Windows. (There are probably other things I hadn't considered, too :-( ). Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Paul Reeves
hat allows it to be turned off. If the disc fails to write the cache during a power failure and NCQ is on then a corrupt database is highly likely. Everything really depends on the manufactures claims that the capacitors can flush the cache successfully. Can we trust them? Paul -- Paul Re

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 at 12:34 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 25.10.2011 14:24, Paul Reeves wrote: > > AFAICT, fsync only gets called if FW=ON. Or have I missed something? > > With FW=OFF, it's controlled by MaxUnflushedWrites and > MaxUnflushedWriteTime. > The docu

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