Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Molnár Attila
Hello Dmitry! On 2014.05.02. 8:34, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 30.04.2014 13:50, Molnár Attila wrote: >> *SIZE OF , SCALE OF > domain or variable name>* >> - SIZE OF : returns max CHAR/VARCHAR length or NUMERIC precision, >> SCALE OF : return scale of NUMERIC >> - gain : by defining a vari

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
05.05.2014 11:05, Molnár Attila wrote: > > I'm createing domains, and using TYPE OF. But as I write it's not > enough. This is just for variable declaration but I need a pair in PSQL > body. Maybe this example would help to understand. > > EXECUTE BLOCK > AS > DECLARE VARIABLE tmp TYPE OF COLUMN rd

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Molnár Attila
On 2014.05.05. 9:27, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 05.05.2014 11:05, Molnár Attila wrote: >> I'm createing domains, and using TYPE OF. But as I write it's not >> enough. This is just for variable declaration but I need a pair in PSQL >> body. Maybe this example would help to understand. >> >> EXECUTE BL

Re: [Firebird-devel] Not handled correctly is such a design in LegacyAPI.

2014-05-05 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 05/04/14 13:39, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Simonov Denis [mailto:sim-m...@list.ru] >> Sent: Domingo, 04 de Mayo de 2014 5:11 >> >> >> Not handled correctly is such a design in Legacy API. >> >> IBExpert >> >> execute block >> as >> begin >> suspend;

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4418) Can not run ALTER TABLE DROP CONSTRAINT after recent changes in svn

2014-05-05 Thread Pavel Zotov (JIRA)
Can not run ALTER TABLE DROP CONSTRAINT after recent changes in svn - Key: CORE-4418 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4418 Project: Firebird Core Iss

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Frank Schlottmann-Gödde
Am 05.05.2014 08:48, schrieb Molnár Attila: >> I believe that there are UDFs available for this already, no? > A very old and unsuppoted udf. In my case I do not expect to read back > from file to DB just one way. It's old but not unsupported :-) And works as expected. ftp://freeadhocudf.org/adh

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Jim Starkey
On 5/2/2014 3:25 PM, Vlad Khorsun wrote: >> OK, the alternative to record lookups is to store the transaction id in >> index. This would require an index insertion for all indexes defined on >> a table even if the key value didn't change. It would also require a >> corresponding index deletion fo

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
05.05.2014 19:06, Jim Starkey wrote: > My sole reservation is that there can be information lost when a large > valued 64 integer is converted into a double to generate the index key. AFAIR, int64 integers are not converted into double, they're compressed using their native format. > My second

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Jim Starkey
On 5/5/2014 11:53 AM, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: 05.05.2014 19:06, Jim Starkey wrote: My sole reservation is that there can be information lost when a large valued 64 integer is converted into a double to generate the index key. AFAIR, int64 integers are not converted into double, they're compresse

Re: [Firebird-devel] Feature request & discussion (Reply to Planning the post v3 development)

2014-05-05 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
05.05.2014 17:06, Jim Starkey wrote: > My third concern is that garbage collection will be very tricky, but as > lone as the going/staying lists are maintained, doable. Actually, transaction numbers in nodes should allow to stop using going/staying lists among with overhead of collecting them

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4419) combination of stored function, union, joins and order by crashes server

2014-05-05 Thread Volker Rehn (JIRA)
combination of stored function, union, joins and order by crashes server Key: CORE-4419 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4419 Project: Firebird Core Issu

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4420) CAST behaving differently in version 2.5

2014-05-05 Thread JIRA
CAST behaving differently in version 2.5 Key: CORE-4420 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4420 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Engine Affects Versions: 2