[Firebird-devel] libedit update for 2.5.x

2013-09-02 Thread marius adrian popa
libedit will be updated and patched for 2.5.x branch also ? I ask this because in debian libedit2 i s already updated and it would be nice if also in the 2.5.x branch would be done so http://packages.debian.org/sid/libedit2

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Reopened: (CORE-4185) FB craches with "invalid lock id (NNNNN), errno: 0" when all connects except one (that locks some record) are forcely killed

2013-09-02 Thread Alexander Peshkov (JIRA)
[ http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4185?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Alexander Peshkov reopened CORE-4185: - Fix is incomplete and wrong > FB craches with "invalid lock id (N), errno: 0" when all co

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

2013-09-02 Thread Stefan Heymann
>>> I'd prefer to have an option to use UTF-16 (treated as a 2-byte >>> character set with surrogate pairs) as that will only halve the >>> maximum allowed number of characters. The maximum allowed number of characters in Unicode is about 1 Million. Which can be perfectly represented by either UTF

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

2013-09-02 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 03:30:26PM +0200, Stefan Heymann wrote: > >>> I'd prefer to have an option to use UTF-16 (treated as a 2-byte > >>> character set with surrogate pairs) as that will only halve the > >>> maximum allowed number of characters. > > The maximum allowed number of characters in Un

Re: [Firebird-devel] libedit update for 2.5.x

2013-09-02 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 09/02/13 16:06, marius adrian popa wrote: > libedit will be updated and patched for 2.5.x branch also ? > > I ask this because in debian libedit2 i s already updated and it would > be nice if also in the 2.5.x branch would be done so > I think that all distros, not debian only, support fresh ed

Re: [Firebird-devel] For discussion: allowing multiple changes in ALTER COLUMN clause (ALTER TABLE)

2013-09-02 Thread Jim Starkey
OK, here's another "humble" suggestion that folks might want to consider for a future version: Support an "upgrade " syntactically parallel to "create ". The "upgrade" version, however, takes the existing object, compares it to the described object, and makes any changes necessary. If they a

[Firebird-devel] Record Encoding, was Unicode UTF-16 etc

2013-09-02 Thread Jim Starkey
Let me offer another humble suggestion, though one that should not be a candidate for FB3: Ditch the concept of fixed length records, completely and forever. Let me sketch the scheme I used in Netfrastructure / Falcon, which originated from a suggestion on this list. The key elements are:

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

2013-09-02 Thread Ivan Přenosil
> Unfortunately the implementation of UTF-8 in Firebird is annoying > because it reduces that maximum allowed number of characters to a 1/4 of > that for single byte character sets making it necessary to switch to > blobs sooner. IIRC, old Interbase versions defined maximum Varchar length in *byte

Re: [Firebird-devel] libedit update for 2.5.x

2013-09-02 Thread Frank Schlottmann-Gödde
On 02.09.2013 17:04, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 09/02/13 16:06, marius adrian popa wrote: >> libedit will be updated and patched for 2.5.x branch also ? >> >> I ask this because in debian libedit2 i s already updated and it would >> be nice if also in the 2.5.x branch would be done so >> > > I think