Re: [Firebird-devel] Meaning of incarnation

2014-07-01 Thread Helen Borrie
At 06:46 a.m. 2/07/2014, Mark Rotteveel wrote: >In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources >the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean? (fig.) Bringing into existence; (lit.) Embodiment in human flesh. Helen ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] Meaning of incarnation

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 1-7-2014 20:56, Ann Harrison wrote: >> In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources >> the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean? > > For cross-version compatibilty, most objects have a version number, sometimes > called "incarnation". Objects that have no

Re: [Firebird-devel] Meaning of incarnation

2014-07-01 Thread Ann Harrison
> Mark, > In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources > the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean? For cross-version compatibilty, most objects have a version number, sometimes called "incarnation". Objects that have not changed will be zero. At least

[Firebird-devel] Meaning of incarnation

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Rotteveel
In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean? For example for op_info_database, the struct on the Firebird side has: typedef struct p_info { OBJCT p_info_object; // Object of information USHORT p_i