Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-24 Thread Tommi Prami
I’ll investigate that later. Thanks. -Tee- From: James Starkey Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 4:16 PM To: For discussion among Firebird Developers Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header Of course there should. The ODS was designed with extensibility in mind, so

Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-24 Thread Tommi Prami
] (possible) Database header Dang... Try to use GStat instead. -Tee- -Original Message- From: Dimitry Sibiryakov Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 1:11 PM To: For discussion among Firebird Developers Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header Tommi Prami wrote 23.08.2022 5

Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-24 Thread James Starkey
Of course there should. The ODS was designed with extensibility in mind, so the initial part of the header page was sacrosanct (i.e. immutable). This was an essential part of the architecture for forward and backward compatibility. The Y-valve, by design, would pass a connection string to all

Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-24 Thread Tommi Prami
Dang... Try to use GStat instead. -Tee- -Original Message- From: Dimitry Sibiryakov Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 1:11 PM To: For discussion among Firebird Developers Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header Tommi Prami wrote 23.08.2022 5:40: > I was think

Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-23 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
Tommi Prami wrote 23.08.2022 5:40: I was thinking that if there is some kind of header (simple enough) in Firebird Databases and/or backup files, maybe some one could point me into the right direction. No. Of course Firebird database has header page described in ods.h but it has no

Re: [Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-23 Thread Roman Simakov
gstat -h вт, 23 авг. 2022 г. в 07:15, Tommi Prami : > > Hello, > > > > I was thinking that if there is some kind of header (simple enough) in > Firebird Databases and/or backup files, maybe some one could point me into > the right direction. > > I would preferably need (mainly for installer)

[Firebird-devel] (possible) Database header

2022-08-22 Thread Tommi Prami
Hello, I was thinking that if there is some kind of header (simple enough) in Firebird Databases and/or backup files, maybe some one could point me into the right direction. I would preferably need (mainly for installer) small tool that would check the ODS version of the DB before I try to