Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3 & 4, new API and the ARRAY type

2020-04-22 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
would have been a godsend - but of course I couldn't. IMO, arrays are a very useful - if not often needed - addition to the rigid-and-stiff SQL language. Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-5230) BIN_SHL and BIN_SHR: Incorrect results when shift >= 64

2016-05-08 Thread Paul Vinkenoog (JIRA)
nts: Engine Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.5.5 Environment: Win7, CentOS 7 Reporter: Paul Vinkenoog Priority: Minor If the second argument to BIT_SHL/BIT_SHR is 64 or greater, it is taken modulo 64 before the shift operation is performed. This leads to unexpec

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

2015-10-09 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hi Alex, >> But I would drop the database name from the first message and only mention >> the directory path, a) because that's the location, and b) for consistency >> between DatabaseAccess and ExternalFileAccess. > Sorry, in external file access it's also filename here, I've just typed > it

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

2015-10-09 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
e error message; this could speed up debugging. But I would drop the database name from the first message and only mention the directory path, a) because that's the location, and b) for consistency between DatabaseAccess and ExternalFileAccess. Paul Vinkenoog

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

2015-10-08 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
t; > an allowed directory tree" when it is Restrict. > > May it be single text "Use of external table file at specified location > is not allowed by server configuration" ? Sure, it's less spe

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

2015-10-07 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
ne. Ideally (if it's not too much work), the message should be something like "The use of external tables is not allowed in the current configuration" when EFA is None, and "The specified external table path does not belong to an al

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

2015-10-07 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
cific ban on this particular file. And of course the instructions in firebird.conf itself. Paul Vinkenoog -- Full-scale, agent-less Infrastructure Monitoring from a single dashboard Integrate with 40+ ManageEngine ITSM Solution

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

2015-10-07 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Alex wrote: > > I think the "Access to external file X is denied by server administrator" > > message could be improved, as it suggests a specific ban on this particular > > file. And of course the instructions in firebird.conf itself. > > Paul, taking into an account that it was written by

Re: [Firebird-devel] revoke all on all

2015-09-29 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 29.09.2015 13:21, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: > > So a CASCADE option would be a welcome addition for such cases. > >Another question: how many levels should this cascade go? If applied, it should be complete, otherwise it wouldn't be much

Re: [Firebird-devel] revoke all on all

2015-09-29 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
were granted TO user ABC. IMO this should not imply that any privileges granted to other users/roles BY user ABC are also withdrawn. Paul Vinkenoog -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourcefor

Re: [Firebird-devel] revoke all on all

2015-09-29 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Alex Peshkoff wrote: > create table t (f int); > grant select on t to public granted by abc; > revoke all on all from abc; > > Currently privileges, granted by user ABC, remain as is after executing > mentioned revoke operator. This looks like a bug for me, but

Re: [Firebird-devel] revoke all on all

2015-09-29 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 09/29/2015 03:23 PM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > > 29.09.2015 13:21, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: > >> So a CASCADE option would be a welcome addition for such cases. > > Another question: how many levels should this cascade go? > > > Unlim

Re: [Firebird-devel] Unicode UTF-16 etc

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
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Re: [Firebird-devel] Jaybird migration to Subversion completed

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
about 10. Congratulations, Mark. It's always a relief when these precarious operations turn out right. Paul Vinkenoog -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

[Firebird-devel] Evaluation of derived tables and CTE's

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
a waste of resources as well as a serious limitation of its usability with non-deterministic functions. The same goes for CTE's. So... have we implemented the DT and CTE features correctly? And if so, can somebody point me to some authoritative sources? Kind regards, Paul Vinkenoog

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
I did now. Yes, I read the mail where you mentioned this just after I had sent mine :-) Paul Vinkenoog -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-07-01 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
' functions). Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog (why do I always do these things at night?) -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-07-01 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
and the 36-char string (should) have the same order, these two functions could be made dead simple by eliminating the unnecessary steps that convert it to an FB_GUID struct and back again. Paul Vinkenoog -- Live Security

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-07-01 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
people are running Firebird 2.5.x successfully on big-endian platforms? Paul Vinkenoog -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
nothing of this makes sense. Quite agreed. Paul Vinkenoog -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-06-28 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
CHAR_TO_UUID2 and UUID_TO_CHAR2 before the final release of Firebird 2.5.2. - Keep CHAR_TO_UUID and UUID_TO_CHAR as they are, except that UUID_TO_CHAR may still need the small change that UUID_TO_CHAR2 already underwent (output lower case a..f instead of upper case). Kind regards, Paul Vinkenoog

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2012-06-28 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
, then so is the output. If you want any more examples (including the conversion functions maybe), please let me know. But now I need some sleep ;-) Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-3715) EXTRACT(YEAR_FOR_WEEK from '2012-01-01')

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
/XE2/en/DateUtils.StartOfTheWeek http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/XE2/en/DateUtils.EndOfTheWeek Guys, I think it's better to discuss tracker items in the tracker. I'll leave my comment there ;-) Paul Vinkenoog

Re: [Firebird-devel] UUIDs

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
uuid_to_char2() and char_to_uuid2() before they see the light of day. BTW, I would have posted much earlier but I usually don't have time to follow firebid-devel. I got alerted to this issue because of a DOC tracker item assigned to me. Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog PS: Of course I'm aware that in, say

Re: [Firebird-devel] Comments for function parameters

2011-07-14 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
: you can do it, but if the column exists in more then one participant, an error is thrown. My 2 cts. Paul Vinkenoog -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-3526) Support for WHEN SQLSTATE

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Vinkenoog (JIRA)
Reporter: Paul Vinkenoog Priority: Minor Now that the SQLSTATE context variable has been implemented for 2.5.1, it seems logical to also support WHEN SQLSTATE x, analogous to WHEN SQLCODE and WHEN GDSCODE. Possibly even in 2.5.1...? -- This message is automatically

Re: [Firebird-devel] SQLSubType weird behavior

2011-06-04 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
for SQLSubType when normally I get the character set id. For (VAR)CHARS, the high byte of the subtype contains the collation ID. Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment