Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU. VS2010 project files

2011-04-19 Thread Paul Reeves
re a ton of work for each icu version, which is one of the reasons why we haven't upgraded icu. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization:

Re: [Firebird-devel] Elevation required on Win7?

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Reeves
e via tcp everything is OK. I created a test user with basic permissions and placed all the required files in C:\Users\test\fbtest. After starting fbserver as an application this command: C:\Users\test\fbtest>isql -u SYSDBA -p masterkey localhost:employee works fine for me. Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] Elevation required on Win7?

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 at 12:21 Paul Reeves wrote: > this command: > > C:\Users\test\fbtest>isql -u SYSDBA -p masterkey localhost:employee > > works fine for me. > Oops, I spoke too soon. It worked alright while I had a user with admin rights logged in simultaneous

Re: [Firebird-devel] Elevation required on Win7?

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 at 12:27 Paul Reeves wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 at 12:21 Paul Reeves wrote: > > this command: > > C:\Users\test\fbtest>isql -u SYSDBA -p masterkey localhost:employee > > > > works fine for me. > > Oops, I spoke too soon.

Re: [Firebird-devel] Elevation required on Win7?

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Reeves
. The things I did differently this time around are: - No installation of Firebird. Just copy the zip kit to a public directory. - Make sure that public dir is fully accessible to Everyone. Anyway, as I said before, I think this is a Win7 feature rather than a problem with Firebird

Re: [Firebird-devel] Elevation required on Win7?

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 at 16:18 Paul Reeves wrote: > > This works for both fb20 and fb21 Actually, this works with 2.0.6 and 2.1.4. Just tried with 2.0.3 and it definitely doesn't work - cannot attach to security database. Looking further it seems that this was fixed in 2.0.

[Firebird-devel] page i/o stats

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Reeves
he last fifteen years that the stats counted all physical page i/o. This does not seem to be the case. (Tests carried out with 2.1.4 SS on Linux, btw.) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support

Re: [Firebird-devel] page i/o stats

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Reeves
O_STATS for the last database run (Windows 16K page size). One would expect to see the page write stats for stat_group 0 to be around 39,000. However, I'm only seeing 49 page_writes. Does anyone know why these inconsistencies exist? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specia

Re: [Firebird-devel] page i/o stats

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Reeves
stats were reset. > Ah, that is interesting. I don't think that is documented. I was under the impression that stat_group 0 was cumulative for all connections since the start of the server. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support

Re: [Firebird-devel] page i/o stats

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Reeves
s are collected at a very low level but they are stored at a higher level. My suspicion is that the figures are getting overwritten some how. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support --

Re: [Firebird-devel] page i/o stats

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Reeves
ommits. GC cannot start before the commit so it cannot influence the perf.h io stats because they are recorded before the commit. GC cannot influence the attachment level mon$ io stats because it is a separate attachment. GC is not an issue here. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com

Re: [Firebird-devel] page i/o stats

2011-07-06 Thread Paul Reeves
ns the first mystery - why the perf.h page writes for 4K were 70,000 and the MON$IO_STATS page writes were only 33,000. Unfortunately, in answering that question I've now got another, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. Paul -- Paul Reeves ht

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
most file systems, operating systems and disc drives all write out the data in any order they fancy. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- EMC VNX: the world's simplest stora

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 29 August 2011 at 12:47 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > On 29/08/2011 06:27, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Monday 29 August 2011 at 11:05 marius adrian popa wrote: > >> you are not the only one that observed db/vm performance issues with > >> ext4 maybe you

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
ish. When we say someone or something is really clever we usually mean the opposite. This way we avoid actually saying that data=writeback is idiotic and the inventor of this was a moron. Although I have to say that the Torvalds quote made me laugh. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
ournal." So presumably as long as data=ordered then a barrier flush will always imply that all data is written to disc. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- EMC VNX: t

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
t be persistent across reboots. So, to be sure, every test run needs to specify this at the start of the run. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- EMC VNX: the world's sim

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 29 August 2011 at 15:30 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > On 29/08/2011 10:24, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Monday 29 August 2011 at 13:35 Alexander Peshkov wrote: > >> Tested CREATE DATABASE on my old box. To avoid disk fragmentation > >> effects databas

Re: [Firebird-devel] Performance of FW databases on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Reeves
red that in the section above. One thing is for sure - you know that the writes are synchronous when the performance drops massively :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support --

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Reeves
a difference. But for a database server? The problem is that the old behaviour was the wrong behaviour. Letting the hard drive re-order page writes completely negates the efforts firebird makes to ensure pages are written in the correct order. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Spec

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Reeves
l be written to disk in order > > Is this wrong? What's then the advantage of (1), since it's much slower > approach? AFAICT, fsync only gets called if FW=ON. Or have I missed something? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.c

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 at 12:34 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 25.10.2011 14:24, Paul Reeves wrote: > > AFAICT, fsync only gets called if FW=ON. Or have I missed something? > > With FW=OFF, it's controlled by MaxUnflushedWrites and > MaxUnflushedWriteTime. > The docu

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Paul Reeves
hat allows it to be turned off. If the disc fails to write the cache during a power failure and NCQ is on then a corrupt database is highly likely. Everything really depends on the manufactures claims that the capacitors can flush the cache successfully. Can we trust them? Paul -- Paul Re

Re: [Firebird-devel] Trace API - What's the unit for number of (reads |fetches ...)

2011-11-15 Thread Paul Reeves
it in fb.conf and using firebird to do all the caching. It was not the result I expected but I hadn't considered that the results may depend on different versions of Windows. (There are probably other things I hadn't considered, too :-( ). Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Reeves
word (which could be masterkey). If no password is provide then the installation would fail. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Reeves
ed the installer would need to actually initialise the security database. The best way to do this would be to provide a batch file that takes the uname and pw as params. That way the zip package can share the same mechanism. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird s

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Reeves
,d & r). A lot of them will not even know there is a command-line. Even then, one of the design goals of the installer is to install a fully working system from the installer itself. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Spec

Re: [Firebird-devel] Initializing security database for first use

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Reeves
confused users. At the moment I would suspect a majority type masterkey because it is the documented default *and* it is a meaningful word. And there is probably a large minority who think they are being clever by only typing eight letters because they know the ninth letter is ignored. Paul -

[Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
How does embedded work in FB3? I'm wondering because make_examples.bat fails unless fb3 is running. It would be nice to build the employee database using the newly built engine but I can't see how to do that at the moment. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Spec

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 16:48:40 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 06/06/12 14:43, Paul Reeves wrote: > > How does embedded work in FB3? > > > > I'm wondering because make_examples.bat fails unless fb3 is running. It > > would be nice to build the employee database usin

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
or the reminder. Only problem is that fbembed.dll doesn't exist in Fb 3.0 :-) But that reminded me about Alex's earlier comment - engine12.dll is needed but is not being found,even though the path is set. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 16:21:25 Paul Reeves wrote: > > But that reminded me about Alex's earlier comment - engine12.dll is needed > but is not being found,even though the path is set. > So, to summarize, I've got empbuild.exe to work by copying fbclient.dll to the em

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 17:18:19 Paul Reeves wrote: > However, if the files are copied as I mentioned above it all works. (Ie, > empbuild.exe builds empbuild.fdb.) > Whoops, I meant to write empbuild.exe builds employee.fdb. empbuild.fdb already exists. Paul -- Paul Re

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Reeves
ngs up and add it to the batch file and test more thoroughly. Thanks, Alex. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will c

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 and embedded

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Reeves
tter if the env var was not necessary. But at least for now I can get on fixing the packaging for Fb 3 on windows. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Live Security Vir

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
s the end user is concerned, which was not obvious at the beginning. Overall I haven't yet found a compelling need to move my local code from cvs, but if I did I think I would look at git before svn. Interesting that you prefer hg over git. Maybe I should have a look at that someday. Pau

Re: [Firebird-devel] Missing SecurityDatabase in firebird.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Reeves
of databases.conf having precedence over aliases.conf? Obviously we can document aliases.conf as deprecated. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support -- Live Security Virtual Confere

Re: [Firebird-devel] Jaybird migration to Subversion completed

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Reeves
On Sunday 05 Aug 2012 17:59:07 Paul Vinkenoog wrote: > > Congratulations, Mark. It's always a relief when these precarious operations > turn out right. Seconded, and there is nothing quite like that cold sweat down the back when things go disastrously wrong :-) Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] Restore improvements?

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Reeves
8? Or even set it to 10240? 75 is way too low. I'm not even sure it makes sense as a default for classic these days if server is 64 bit. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support--

Re: [Firebird-devel] Tips on debugging deadlocks ?

2012-10-16 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 16 Oct 2012 21:55:55 marius adrian popa wrote: > Jiri needs some help in this area > https://twitter.com/cincura_net/status/258247935626727425 > I'm all for being concise but perhaps using an environment that isn't restricted to 140 characters might help :-) P

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3, time to rename conflict names ?

2012-11-17 Thread Paul Reeves
tabbed command completion. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support-- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, s

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-13 Thread Paul Reeves
> > also mysql is configured the same way from start > sudo cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf | grep 127.0.0.1 > bind-address = 127.0.0.1 > > > ps: > by default firebird in debian/ubuntu is listening on *.gds_db > What is the problem that this solves? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://w

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird new release is needed

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Reeves
. So just releasing a patched 2.5.2 as 2.5.3 will cause even more confusion. Sigh. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps fas

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird new release is needed

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Reeves
ps even triple before the end of the decade! It can't be allowed - if nothing else firebird stands for prudent version numbering. We must resist this temptation - look where it got firefox. :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibph

Re: [Firebird-devel] (Double) Metaphone?

2013-03-30 Thread Paul Reeves
s, my initial reaction is that there needs to be a way of loading the function according to the character set, otherwise it is limited to data stored in the latin alphabet. But the principal is good. Paul -- Paul Reeves http:

Re: [Firebird-devel] gsec-issues with FB3.0

2013-07-04 Thread Paul Reeves
ing... Yes, very interesting. I saw that error recently. I was trying to access gsec before I had added SYSDBA. Once SYSDBA was added and I managed to login correctly as SYSDBA (not easy) the message went away. Presumably you have set AuthServer correctly? And restarted the server per

Re: [Firebird-devel] gsec-issues with FB3.0

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
er it is the default click through option or not. Users are not against change, they just like to do it at their own pace. Hopefully the feedback we get during alpha/beta will help us make the right decision. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoeni

Re: [Firebird-devel] gsec-issues with FB3.0

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 16 July 2013 15:17:49 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 07/15/13 18:19, Paul Reeves wrote: > > One problem I found is that I couldn't log in to an FB3 server on windows > > from a linux fb2.5 client. How is that done without the legacy > > authentication? > > N

[Firebird-devel] make packages and rpms

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Reeves
M/BUILDROOT. Anyone got any ideas? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance.

Re: [Firebird-devel] make packages and rpms

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Reeves
firebird2/gen/RPM/BUILDROOT/FirebirdCS-2.5.2.26541-0.x86_64 ++ dirname /srv/firebird/fb25_private/firebird2/gen/RPM/BUILDROOT/FirebirdCS-2.5.2.26541-0.x86_64 ie, it deletes the directory and re-creates it. so I guess I need to dig around in the %install script.

Re: [Firebird-devel] make packages and rpms

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 21 October 2013 14:20:29 Philippe Makowski wrote: > > yes, and by the way I don't really understand why you want to build > these rpm > It is not for me :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
d_users info_stdin That is about as far as I got. I have looked a bit at the gbak/gfix equivalents and they mostly seem to work, but I haven't yet had a chance to do an exhaustive study. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
ld be automatically included in gstat -a. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
mgr. See this bug report for more details: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4298 Alex knows what I'm talking about, which is how he discovered that the isc_spb_sts_table is broken. So those info_ tags *should* work. (imo.) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Suppor

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
fbsvcmgr service_mgr user sysdba password masterkey action_get_fb_log but it ought to. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your busi

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Reeves
what does work, what is broken, and what is not meant to work so that it can be documented (and fixed, where relevant.) And also to provide some more examples. fbsvcmgr is quite neat - but it isn't well documented and working out how to use it requires a lot of trial and error. Paul -- P

Re: [Firebird-devel] isc_spb_sts_table tag

2013-12-19 Thread Paul Reeves
word masterkey action_db_stats dbname \ employee sts_table command_line employee As usual 'Unknown switch' is the error, no matter which order the switches are passed, so it seems as if both tags are currently broken in svcmgr. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supp

[Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
un SuperClassic under FB3 on Windows? AFAICT it is not possible. I don't mind - SuperClassic seems to share the worst features of SuperServer and ClassicServer, and we should officially deprecate in FB3 (imo.) But the questions will be asked - how can we run SC under FB3? and does it make a

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
true * Super with shared access - also illegal Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security int

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 29 January 2014 17:20:16 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 29.01.2014 18:37, Paul Reeves wrote: > > I guess what we really need is to document in firebird.conf how the -m > > switch affects the other two settings. There would seem to be a total of > > eight combinations.

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 30 January 2014 09:56:50 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > > We introduce a separate (very thin) fblistener.exe (fbremote or > whatever) binary that acts similar to xinetd on posix. Or maybe we have finally found a reason to keep the guardian ? (At least on windows.) Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] fb3 access modes under windows

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Reeves
s\threaded mode from there. > Yes, that would be my preference. No -m switch and remove SharedN options from fb.conf. Users would be able to set default SS or CS at server level and override at database level with SS, CS or exclusive single-user attachment. Paul -- Paul Reeves h

Re: [Firebird-devel] Created: (CORE-4336) Firebird.msg is not installed with client

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Reeves
WITHOUT breaking up any other existing Firebird > installation. Have you tried setting FIREBIRD_MSG? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Intr

Re: [Firebird-devel] Created: (CORE-4336) Firebird.msg is not installed with client

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 13 February 2014 17:06:32 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 13.02.2014 16:48, Paul Reeves wrote: > > Have you tried setting FIREBIRD_MSG? > >Do you mean from my application before calling LoadLibrary()? Yes. >No. I have no idea what value I would have to assign

Re: [Firebird-devel] Update ICU in Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Reeves
t strictly true. Obviously a compiler is needed for the build and microsoft don't supply those with the O/S, but neither unixtools nor Inno Setup are necessary to build firebord. They are only used for packaging. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporti

Re: [Firebird-devel] Update ICU in Windows

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 17 February 2014 09:38:44 Alex Peshkoff wrote: > On 02/15/14 11:45, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2014 18:24:40 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > >> 14.02.2014 18:16, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > >>> If not, build will not be simp

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU Data table customization

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Reeves
eem to be a lot of work, and difficult to maintain. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU Data table customization

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 19 February 2014 16:23:44 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >As said Aleksey Kovazin, Internet traffic today is cheap. Why to care > about size and strip anything?.. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporti

Re: [Firebird-devel] MySQL versus Firebird

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Reeves
Obviously the massive interest from firebird devs has overwhelmed the site. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph

Re: [Firebird-devel] libfbembed.so static for android

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Reeves
e than showing cat videos. We need to move on from this idea that they are inferior in some way. If anything they are the future of computing. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Learn

Re: [Firebird-devel] C++ and the API

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/rlsnotes/Firebird-3.0.0_Alph >a2-ReleaseNotes.pdf > > The document may not be a phantom but that web server is. I can get to http://web.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/ but all but one of the folders underneath seem to be inaccessible :-( Paul -- Pa

Re: [Firebird-devel] New Interface

2014-08-14 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 14 August 2014 13:28:33 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 14.08.2014 11:34, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > > HP C/aC++ Version A.06.26 > >Alpha version?.. > More to the point - Itanium? An ARM-based test would be useful. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com S

Re: [Firebird-devel] Using Firebird 3, beta 1 - installer report

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Reeves
one place, but it does mean that we are writing to files such as the log and the security database and these should not be in %ProgramFiles% and this should be a read-only directory. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users o

[Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re: Using Firebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Reeves
(Which doesn't mean to say that progress cannot be made in the meantime.) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re: UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Reeves
a service and then start an instance of fb as an app on port 3051 there is no way that the installer will detect that instance. And if the service is not running and it detects that you are installing over an existing v3 install it will assume you are doing an in-place upgrade. I&#

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re:UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
different levels. And it is even worse on linux. There, we are planning to move towards distro-specific packages and afaict, multiple installs are just not possible at the moment. I know I've had to do it manually. I don't know what the situation is on other platforms such as the m

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re: UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
t; I was thinking more of configuration options without having to go through > the config files. ;) > Yep, that is what I'm thinking about, too. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re:UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
like fb.conf etc. And there are also vars for placing the lock manager and message file. Something else to add to the 'to do list when I have some spare time'. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird --

Re: [Firebird-devel] Multiple instances under windows (was Re:UsingFirebird 3, beta 1 - installer report)

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Reeves
it recently I just installed the tarball a couple of times. (This was with 2.5). Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3.0 Beta 1

2014-12-08 Thread Paul Reeves
but you will have to configure firebird 3 manually if you want to keep an existing firebird installation. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Fre

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3.0 Beta 1

2014-12-08 Thread Paul Reeves
On Monday 08 December 2014 15:43:30 Werner wrote: > On 12/8/2014 9:28, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Monday 08 December 2014 09:04:16 Werner wrote: > >> I would like to start testing FB 3. > >> > >> Does the installer allow installation side by side with FB 2.5? &

Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 3.0 Beta - How to intialize security db

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Reeves
least it would create a working system and switching between the two just requires an uninstall/install. o Give up on trying to test fb3 on the same box as fb2.5. VMs are cheap and easy to set up. I'm sure we will resolve the problems with running fb3 simultaneously with earlier versions

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fixing database to use it with changed ICU version.

2014-12-11 Thread Paul Reeves
it) and even marked as the recommended solution, but it is not always practical or desirable or even possible to do that. I think an option to reset the database via gfix would still be useful. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird

Re: [Firebird-devel] Examples broken in Windows

2015-01-27 Thread Paul Reeves
27;s not a thing recently changed. > fbclient.lib was derived from the name of the .lib generated by the borland compiler. Try fbclient_ms.lib. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Dive in

Re: [Firebird-devel] Windows build

2015-01-29 Thread Paul Reeves
> > I mean, make_boot/make_all copy files to output_ but IDE run files > from temp\\\firebird... > > Do any of you have non-committed script that do the things or I'm > missing something? > > run_all.bat perhaps? Paul -- Paul Reeves htt

Re: [Firebird-devel] Commits visible in our main page.

2015-03-10 Thread Paul Reeves
he same as git but marks files with the committed timestamp. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel

Re: [Firebird-devel] Commits visible in our main page.

2015-03-10 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 12:24:03 Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 10.03.2015 12:12, Paul Reeves wrote: > > AFAIK, you just need the one copy. You can switch views as much as you > > want. > >So, if I want to have "clean" Firebird copy, "modified" copy

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
r in CVS or SVN. By the time I was ready to give them my changes the code had been refactored and as there was no CVS tree there wasn't really anywhere for me to send them. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird --

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
r behaviour to use sequences. > If you go that route, use of the term TPC-C violates the terms of the > Transaction Processing Council's trademark which requires an independent > audit. So use the open source alternative, DBT2. Thanks for the correction - I must get i

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
atter. I guess it is time for me to see if I can get it out of my private CVS tree and put it on github. Then we can take a look at this subject in more detail. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird ---

Re: [Firebird-devel] ANN: BenchmarkSQL

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 12 March 2015 13:39:20 Roman Simakov wrote: > 2015-03-12 15:19 GMT+03:00 Paul Reeves : > > It is quite funny really how > > many people have latched onto this program, found it 'just works' and > > made a few modifications to it thinking they have a usef

[Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-24 Thread Paul Reeves
1 we saw this in empbuild.c: isc_vtov ((char*) job_code, (char*) isc_36.isc_40, 6); isc_vtov ((char*) job_country, (char*) isc_36.isc_37, 16); Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Fir

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-24 Thread Paul Reeves
in gfix I can't confirm - examples build runs without problems > for me (checkout and build 20 minutes ago). > > No such luck for me :-( I just did a fresh checkout and the Win64 build still fails with the same errors I reported earlier. Paul --

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-25 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 19:22:15 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > On 24/06/2015 13:42, Paul Reeves wrote: > > No such luck for me :-( > > > > I just did a fresh checkout and the Win64 build still fails with the same > > errors I reported earlier. > > Pl

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-06-25 Thread Paul Reeves
On Thursday 25 June 2015 10:56:24 Paul Reeves wrote: > > I'll do a 32-bit build and compare. > OK, it doesn't look as if gpre is the problem. The employee.c generated is identical on 32 and 64-bit. So it must be related to the database that was created. I'll do so

Re: [Firebird-devel] employee db build broken

2015-07-01 Thread Paul Reeves
On Wednesday 01 July 2015 11:34:08 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 24.06.2015 11:50, Paul Reeves wrote: > > The 64-bit windows build of the employee db is broken. > > Can you confirm that the issue is gone now? > > Yes. Adriano supplied a fix and tagged it for Beta 2. I've check

Re: [Firebird-devel] windows installer and authentication

2015-07-13 Thread Paul Reeves
n of install process. Obviously I am missing something huge here - if we don't provide legacy authentication how and where do we create sysdba? Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird --

Re: [Firebird-devel] windows installer and authentication

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Reeves
On Tuesday 14 July 2015 19:00:59 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 13.07.2015 16:07, Paul Reeves wrote: > > Obviously I am missing something huge here - if we don't provide legacy > > authentication how and where do we create sysdba? > > The same way (gsec?) and the same location

[Firebird-devel] Parsing fbtrace.conf

2015-07-28 Thread Paul Reeves
example postfix is specifically designed to allow this: myparam = x < snip lots of config > myparam = y and the final value used for myparam will be y. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Fi

[Firebird-devel] fbtrace, icu and linux

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Reeves
ay need some attention. When the tracker is back online I guess I should log this as a bug. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird -- Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at

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