Oops - a typo - meant kernel 2.6.24!
glibc 2.7 is OK, what about kernel 2.4.24 - not sure, I've started
development with 2.6.27
Does kernel 2.4 support NPTL correctly?
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The warning would then go away.
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On 19/12/11 12:12, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
ony, on my mind that's something worth fixing. Build goes wrong at some
step, looks like you use h-file from one version of ICU, but have
libraries from other version
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to be a serious
disbenefit resulting from the change in behaviour.
On 26/03/14 06:31, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
On 03/25/14 18:13, Tony Whyman wrote:
Talk of libfbembed has reminded me of a problem I have been having with
the debian/ubuntu builds for Firebird 2.5. It seems that the embeded
server for this build
as the embedded server.
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On 26/03/14 09:36, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
26.03.2014 10:23, Tony Whyman wrote:
1, Requiring access to the security database is a change in behaviour
from Firebird 2.1 and breaks any implementation that relied on this.
You badly mix up Firebird
for the
security database.
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On 26/03/14 10:29, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
On 03/26/14 13:23, Tony Whyman wrote:
1, Requiring access to the security database is a change in behaviour
from Firebird 2.1 and breaks any implementation that relied on this.
If you do not use -user switch in isql
database was in the directory given by the FIREBIRD
environment variable. Under Firebird 2.5 there seems to be no workaround.
I have already posted a bug report on the IBPP list about this. The
FIREBIRD environment variable issue probably needs to be progressed
separately.
Tony Whyman
MWA
On 26/03
Fluvio,
It looks like the patch I submitted was stripped off before the post was
copied to the list. If you want to test it then I can send to you by
direct EMail.
Regards
Tony Whyman
MWA
On 26/03/14 15:21, Fulvio Senore wrote:
Tony,
thank you for your clarification. I am using IBPP too
will be off limits.
May I humbly suggest that a language independent version of the new API
is also made available - perhaps by defining
tables of function pointers.
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Sorry - what is UIB and where do I find it?
On 13/07/14 15:12, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
Take interface unit from UIB.
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Thanks - I'll take a look
On 13/07/14 15:43, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
13.07.2014 18:36, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uib/
And the module he supposedly refers to is:
https://sourceforge.net/p/uib/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/source/uibfblib.pas
Dmitry
).
Is there a true platform, compiler and language independent means of
accessing the new API or is it limited to C++ and special cases where
the vtable is the same?
Tony Whyman
MWA
On 13/07/14 15:43, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
13.07.2014 18:36, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uib
that
should be complier neutral on the same platform?
Tony Whyman
MWA
On 13/07/14 17:54, Tony Whyman wrote:
Well, I downloaded uibfblib.pas. and merged it into my test program.
Compiled it using FPC 2.6.4 under 64-bit Linux and the same problem.
Fails with a SIGSEGV. Again, I am not surprised
does not meet that requirement.
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'fb_get_master_interface' as a C++ function may
well be the easiest way to protect the innocent.
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On 15/07/14 13:56, James Starkey wrote:
There appears to be an impass: The desire to define an interface in
C++ and the problems of cross compiler and cross language access to
the API. Here are some
and probably the best approach is a set of 'C' wrappers. As
Jim indicated, this should not be a difficult problem to solve.
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MWA
On 15/07/14 14:13, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
15.07.2014 15:08, Tony Whyman wrote:
I agree with Jim is probably the easiest way to respond to this. I have
will need
to be checked to make sure that it hasn't changed.
This is asking too much of the Firebird user, especially when the
solution is so straightforward.
Tony Whyman
MWA
On 21/07/14 15:04, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
On 07/21/14 17:09, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
21.07.2014 16:32, Alex Peshkoff wrote
++ program to attempt to use an implicit and invisible vtable. Crazy,
nuts, insane, bonkers.
Totally agree.
As for what new features are in the interface - that is a separate
discussion. Let's first agree that any new interface should be platform
and language independent.
Tony Whyman
MWA
Well, if there is any conclusion you can get from this is that 87% of
respondents are working in Pascal and hence the importance of ensuring
that a suitable language binding is available for Pascal. But, even
though I am a strong advocate of Pascal, I also use PHP and C++ with
Firebird, and I
next?
On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Tony Whyman wrote:
Well, if there is any conclusion you can get from this is that 87% of
respondents are working in Pascal and hence the importance of
ensuring that a suitable language binding is available for Pascal.
But, even though I am a strong advocate
, 2014, at 11:59 AM, marius adrian popa wrote:
There are a few directions for interfaces
What is needed is cleaner c++ interface that can be used from other
languages : Delphi or with a easy wrapper around and it should be
workable state in the examples area
On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Tony
Hey guys - someone would also like to get this discussion back on track.
If there is anything that has come out of these discussions is the
importance of the Delphi/Free Pascal user base and the first requirement
for the FB3 API has to be to ensure that these users have an efficient
and easy to
All this heat is not useful. Yes, of course Delphi and Free Pascal use a
non-standard ABI. That's because there is no standard. Likewise, C++
compilers also have a non-standard ABI.
In the absence of standards all we can do is default to the lowest
common denominator and, in practice, that
Firebird already has a C++ Interface that is widely if not universally
used by C++ Developers (including myself) to access the Firebird API.
This is IBPP. IMHO, it is well designed, stable and fit for purpose. It
compares well with similar libraries such as MySQL++ and Oracle OCCI.
On the other
, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:18:58 +0100, Tony Whyman
tony.why...@mccallumwhyman.com wrote:
I think this discussion is getting a bit out of control. I for one still
have tens of unread messages on this subject, but I get the feeling people
are talking past each other instead
Before this goes much further, can someone confirm that COM is
compatible with Linux. I was always under the impression that it was a
Windows only technology. Googling the subject does not come up anything
other than DCOM and a lot of negative comments on COM.
COM is full of problems:
- UTF16
Mark,
A good post as this sums up the issue. I only hope that the core team
are listening as what happens to a project when the developers ignore
the users?
On 12/08/14 09:13, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
The main point of an API is to allow developers to*use* Firebird, so
please do not alienate
I'm not quite sure what you think is wrong with this code (from the fpc
viewpoint):
# [31] WriteLn(master.getVersion());
callfpc_get_output
movq%rax,%rbx
movqU_P$CREATE_MASTER,%rdi
movqU_P$CREATE_MASTER,%rax
movq(%rax),%rax
call*(%rax)
movl
, and the parameters are passed in
right-to-left order. The difference is the addition of the //*this*
pointer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_%28computer_programming%29//, which
is pushed onto the stack last, as if it were the first parameter in the
function prototype./
On 14/08/14 13:08, Tony
to GetMaster - or at least
the internal call that validates the interface - so there really is
something different between the two structures.
On 14/08/14 14:56, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
14.08.2014 14:08, Tony Whyman wrote:
I'm not quite sure what you think is wrong with this code (from the fpc
I was using the Alpha 2 source
On 14/08/14 15:23, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 14/08/2014 11:04, Tony Whyman wrote:
master := IMaster(GetMaster());
The program now does complete without an error, but returns 15 as the
version. My reading of the Firebird code is that the correct
On 15/08/14 08:48, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
Integers are ok, pointers are ok, interfaces are in trouble
This should probably be written in stone somewhere.
Even simple external calls such as fb_get_master_interface are difficult
enough. You have carefully define each data type used and ensure
Just out of interest, is OCFS2/DRBD any use as a page/lock server?
On 23/03/15 13:01, James Starkey wrote:
The major new piece is a separate component, the page server. By
phase 5, it will be necessary to integrate page change and lock
manager traffic, so perhaps a better name would be
available. My recollection is that it was more complicated adding ISQL
set term compatibility (i.e. having to parse a set term statement) than
it was to count begin/end block nesting and ignore semi-colons except in
the outer block. Anyway, the parser worked regardless of whether set
term was u
Yes, the number of times I have caught out by that little oddity.
On 16/10/15 14:29, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
> Which must be present in the end of struct or class
The underlying point is that an sql script parser doesn't have to do a
complete analysis but does have to break up the text into blocks
Except that there is no more reason for a separator after the final PSQL
END statement than there is in 'C' for a semi-colon after a closing brace.
On 16/10/15 14:01, Ivan Přenosil wrote:
> There are actually two separators/terminators - one to be used in scripts
> to separate commands, one to
.
Is there any documentation or examples on using this interface?
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I put it at the beginning
On 05/09/16 10:22, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
> On 09/04/2016 06:26 PM, Tony Whyman wrote:
>> {$ifdef fpc} {$mode delphi} {$endif}
> Yes -Mdelphi is required switch.
>
> And where should be that line added? In the most beginni
Martin,
I had the same problem. You have to add
{$ifdef fpc} {$mode delphi} {$endif}
in order to compile with FPC.
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On 04/09/16 14:29, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Sunday 04 September 2016 10:34:05 Martin Schreiber wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Currently I am implementi
e and repeated calls to
IPluginSet.next get you nowhere but an unending loop.
Any ideas?
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On 22/11/16 16:56, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
> On 11/22/16 16:42, Tony Whyman wrote:
>> I am trying to find a way of determining whether Engine12 is available
>> as a provider when using the FIrebird 3 API.
>>
>> Enumerating the list of Providers in firebird.conf tells
istributed" firebird.conf and include "Engine12" in
the list of providers. However, libengine12 is not installed. You need
also to install the firebird3.0-server-core to get this installed.
Is this a problem? Would it be better if the firebird.conf file
correctly reflected
Of course what this does seem to imply is that you can't scan the list
of providers in the configuration file (e.g. using the Firebird API) to
reliably determine which providers are available.
On 21/11/16 16:01, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
Missing providers are ignored.
>Would it be better if
For those interested in using Firebird from Pascal/Lazarus, I've copied
the following announcement to this list.
Tony Whyman
MWA Software
Announcement follows:
MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of IBX2 for Lazarus.
This is formally a pre-release. Although the software has been
On 25/06/18 11:17, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
25.06.2018 11:29, Tony Whyman wrote:
Even if it were still computationally infeasible to break Srp today,
it is probably that in the next few years it will be totally broken.
You missed my words "non-theoretical".
There is nothing t
On 25/06/18 10:02, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
25.06.2018 10:35, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
Afraid you are wrong here. It helps an attacker to detect what plugin
is actually used by server (for example - srp or srp256) and use that
info to attack particular plugin later.
Does
On 25/06/18 10:14, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 25.06.2018 12:02, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
25.06.2018 10:35, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
Afraid you are wrong here. It helps an attacker to detect what
plugin is actually used by server (for example - srp or srp256)
Perhaps worth noting that the version of Firebird.pas distributed with
IBX for Lazarus is patched with many changes. See
https://svn.mwasoftware.co.uk/viewvc/public/ibx/trunk/fbintf/client/3.0/firebird/Firebird.pas?revision=209=markup
This is:
1. To comment out all exception handling. This is
I am just wondering if the requested feature is not already present.
A quick test with isc_database_info, with SYSDBA and a normal user
logged in shows:
- SYSDBA connection: only SYSDBA appears to be returned.
- User connection: only user name is returned.
From the security viewpoint, only
There's also the isc_dsql_sql_info() API call (see chapter 6 of the API
Guide). This gives statistics on a per SQL statement basis, and allows
you to get the number of inserts, updates, deletes, etc. performed by
the statement. Note that in the Firebird 3 API this is implemented as
the
".
In all cases, you should null the pointer to the interface after
disposing of it.
The Firebird Pascal API is object oriented and more than one copy of an
object can reference the same underlying Firebird interface, hence it
always uses reference counter interfaces to dispose of objects.
Regards
T
IBX's Firebird Pascal API uses the IProvider interface to get an attachment.
It uses IAttachment to get a transaction (single database) or
IDtc/IDtcStart for a multi-database transaction.
On 05/12/2019 10:31, Jiří Činčura wrote:
3. A transaction (ITransaction) is disposed of with a "release"
My guess is that you are using the wrong calling convention for Linux.
Note: IBX uses "stdcall" when accessing the Firebird API under Windows,
but changes to using "cdecl" under Linux.
On 26/02/2020 13:30, Massimo Fazzolari wrote:
Hi,
I compiled a Firebird UDF library written in object
This is all post Beta 1 stuff. When will there be a Beta 2 release
incorporating EXTENDED TIME(STAMP) WITH TIME ZONE?
On 06/03/2020 09:48, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-03-06 12:43, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
I'll grudgingly implement support in Jaybird by handling it identical
Hence why I reported
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5788
and why SRP256 has been available from Firebird 3.0.4 onwards.
On 09/01/2020 17:25, marius adrian popa wrote:
On 10/03/2020 10:34, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
10.03.2020 09:48, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
May be for old windows versions - yes, some problems. All the others
upgrade ICU as a part of regular OS upgrade. I.e. if one already has
local ICU extended format is definitely useless
On 04/03/2020 17:16, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-03-04 20:01, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
What is the purpose of introducing yet another datatype called
EXTENDED TIME/TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE?
Help users missing ICU on the client work with time zones.
I am still trying to
I have noticed that the FB4 snapshot builds for Windows include the icu
files icudt52.dll, etc.
They probably should not be installed for Windows 10 Version 1703
(Creators Update) onwards. Does the Windows installer make such a check
and only install the icu files for older versions of
On 28/04/2020 14:47, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
On 28-04-2020 15:43, Tony Whyman wrote:
Apologies. I forgot to mention that I was worrying about using the
ICU for the time zone database rather than character sets.
Why does that worry you?
Mark
Because my understanding is that the ICU
On 28/04/2020 14:22, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
I advise not to do that same thing in Windows as done in Linux, using
the OS ICU.
In Linux situation is less complex, it's a server OS. I also think it
was an incorrect thing started without notice by the distro people.
So is the ICU
On 28/04/2020 14:22, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
Databases (indexes) depends on ICU being the same (same sort key
version) or they need to be backed-up and restored (with gbak) to be
fully functional.
That surprises me, as I thought that a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE was
stored as a GMT
Apologies. I forgot to mention that I was worrying about using the ICU
for the time zone database rather than character sets.
On 28/04/2020 14:39, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
On 28-04-2020 15:28, Tony Whyman wrote:
On 28/04/2020 14:22, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
Databases (indexes
On 28/04/2020 15:11, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 28/04/2020 11:05, Tony Whyman wrote:
On 28/04/2020 14:59, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/blob/master/doc/sql.extensions/README.time_zone.md#updating-the-time-zone-database
This text
On 28/04/2020 14:59, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/blob/master/doc/sql.extensions/README.time_zone.md#updating-the-time-zone-database
This text applies to building firebird. I am worrying about the end
user's strategy. My point is that there
So, I guess this has been added since beta 1. I can see it in the latest
Windows snapshot, but not in the latest Linux snapshot.
So the README should make clear that the tzdata directory only applies
to the Windows builds?
Back to my original concern. While the README file gives an outline
Well, it comes as news to me that the array type is unsupported in the new API.
IBX supports the array type with the new FB3 api and it all seems to work fine.
The example demos work with both Firebird 2.5 and Firebird 3.0.To do this, I
had to reverse engineer the FB 2.5 code in order to
While on the subject of incompleteness in the Firebird 3 API, I never
found any alternative to the following utility functions from the legacy
API.
isc_sqlcode
isc_sql_interprete
isc_interprete
isc_event_counts
isc_event_block
isc_free
This is not a big deal as these are all local functions
On 29/04/2020 13:59, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
There probably should thus be a firebird-tzdata package as part of the
set of (deb/rpm) Firebird packages containing the latest tzdata files.
It should then be easy enough for the package maintainer to roll out
updates to the time zone
All I get when trying to use the current snapshot and opening a database
is the error message "Invalid Clumplet buffer structure: path length
doesn't match with clumplet".
I am using a test program that works with all previous versions of Firebird.
If I try to use ISQL with the example
In the README.time_zone, the SET BIND OF TIME ZONE TO EXTENDED is
described as being intended to "solve a problem of representing correct
time on clients missing ICU library".
All the text I can find, discusses how this is used when reading a
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data type from a
On 29/04/2020 13:22, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
This has nothing to do with ICU.
There is no ICU tz data package in Ubuntu. The data is with the libicu
package inside the libraries.
OK. That seems to be supported by the ICU documentation.
There probably should thus be a
On 29/04/2020 13:27, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 29/04/2020 08:37, Paul Reeves wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:59:43 +0100
Tony Whyman wrote:
Hopefully, an installer package will eventually be made available to
automate the process. However, the above manual procedure is all
On 29/04/2020 12:12, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
In Linux (Ubuntu as least) and probably MacOS, the ICU time zone
database is not maintained updated in an Ubuntu release. I guess even if
they rebuild and update the library, it still comes with the original tz
database.
So the process of
Many thanks to those who responded yesterday to my question on ICU
library file installation under Windows. I am in the process of updating
the IBX User Manual to include the Firebird 4 extensions and this
question arose when updating the deployment guidelines. Specifically,
giving IBX users
I have been investigating how the current development snapshot works
with arrays and the new Firebird 4 data types. So far, the I have the
following results:
1. DECFLOAT(16): works fine. Able to declare an array (e.g. Float16
DecFloat(16) [0:16]), write to array elements, save the row and
/opt/firebird4b2/plugins/libChaCha.so: undefined symbol: chacha_setup
On 08/05/2020 13:54, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-05-08 15:43, Tony Whyman wrote:
Finally got round to working out why there was a problem.
If I change the Wirecrypt setting in firebird.conf
On 08/05/2020 14:07, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-05-08 16:00, Tony Whyman wrote:
/opt/firebird4b2/plugins/libChaCha.so: undefined symbol: chacha_setup
On 08/05/2020 13:54, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-05-08 15:43, Tony Whyman wrote:
Finally got round
Panic over. I had libtomcrypt0 installed and masquerading as
libtomcrypt1. Correct version now installed and FB4 snapshot working.
On 08/05/2020 14:16, Tony Whyman wrote:
On 08/05/2020 14:07, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-05-08 16:00, Tony Whyman wrote:
/opt/firebird4b2
ia Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-04-30 12:10, Tony Whyman wrote:
All I get when trying to use the current snapshot and opening a
database is the error message "Invalid Clumplet buffer structure:
path length doesn't match with clumplet".
I am using a test program that works with all
I have also been having problems with the use of the TIME WITH TIME ZONE
type and have been holding back on posting on the issue until I came up
with a suitable proposal. I wrote down my thoughts on the issue a few
weeks ago and have appended them to the end of this EMail - at the time
of
I have been paying attention recently to the VERSION number for the
IUtil API, and I can't see the logic behind the version numbering
scheme. I am looking at the Firebird.pas file.
In Firebird 3, I see "const VERSION = 13;"
In Firebird 4 Beta 1, I see "const VERSION = 21;"
In the most recent
See http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6207
On 19/03/2020 15:27, Norbert Saint Georges wrote:
for information, the differential from yesterday's "firebird.pas"
139c139,140
< ISC_USHORT = word; { 16 bit unsigned }
---
ISC_USHORT = word; { 16 bit unsigned }
ISC_SHORT
Yes, the "missing types" problem was fixed earlier today.
ISC_TIMESTAMP_TZ_EX
ISC_SHORT
ISC_TIME_TZ_EX
were all missing from Firebird.pas. It should now compile correctly.
On 19/03/2020 15:38, Norbert Saint Georges wrote:
Tony Whyman a écrit :
See http://tracker.firebirdsql.
of these issues. You will
probably end up concentrating on opening an example database using a
basic DPB and reading/writing a limited set of data types.
Regards
Tony Whyman
MWA
On 17/08/2020 16:25, Paul Reeves wrote:
I thought I would port the OO API examples to Object Pascal. After all, they
Just tried to check out Beta 2 on Linux Mint 19.3 (= ubuntu bionic
18.04) and found that the binaries have been compiled to use
libncurses6. Ubuntu 18.04 uses libncurses5. You need ubuntu 19.10 if you
don't want to go through the bother of backporting libncurses6.
By contrast the most recent
On 29/05/2020 14:33, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 29.05.2020 16:22, Tony Whyman wrote:
Just tried to check out Beta 2 on Linux Mint 19.3 (= ubuntu bionic
18.04) and found that the binaries have been compiled to use
libncurses6. Ubuntu 18.04 uses libncurses5. You need ubuntu 19.10
On 08/07/2020 14:00, Pavel Cisar wrote:
TIME WITH TIMEZONE is pointless. It sort off works for "naive" TZ that
does not have things like summer time and other time shifts based on
date. The pytz library does not even allow you to create time with
such tz. The dateutil does, but the usability
On 15/06/2020 15:37, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 2020-06-11 18:30, Tony Whyman wrote:
On 11/06/2020 11:18, Pavel Cisar wrote:
This is not a problem for languages like Python, Java and .NET that
don't use these files at all, but C++ & Pascal are still important
languages an
clear scheme for version
numbering as consistent version numbers are really important when it
comes to backwards compatibility.
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On 04/12/2020 16:03, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
04.12.2020 16:20, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
After closer inspection, I found the issue. The SHA-1 hash of DAVIDS
is 00AD377F8297F04FD83DFDBF48AABF316850862F. Seeing that leading
zero, I guessed that might be part of the problem. After stripping
the
On 04/12/2020 14:55, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 04/12/2020 11:48, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
This behaviour is a security issue, it leaks existence or
non-existence of the user.
Is it a security issue in any website that if I try to create an account
and it says the user already
Is this a character case problem? A quick look at the Firebird SRP code
suggests that the username/password hash is generated using the actual
character string without any transformation to all upper case.
On 04/12/2020 13:38, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
A bug was reported today against Jaybird
There is an important point sitting here for support of legacy
applications. While a standalone x86 Firebird Server is likely to be of
increasingly little interest, an x86 client library may need to be
supported for much longer. This then gives rise to the question: what
about the embedded
Hi!
We previously decided that we does not need to maintain API
compatibility within mistakes done in alpha/beta versions.
So interfaces does not need to be versioned between unstable releases.
Well, you may not need to maintain API compatibility, but there does
need to be a clear and
suggestions are welcome.
I believe that a solution is necessary because you cannot use IBatch for
any large scale use without knowing what you need to do to recover from
a buffer overflow error without losing user data.
Tony Whyman
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On 23/08/2021 13:03, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
The minor bug is that if TAG_BUFFER_BYTES_SIZE is set to > 256MB no
error status is reported on a call to createBatch. Instead, you only
know you have a problem when an error is returned from IBatch::add -
looks like the buffer size
On 20/08/2021 16:18, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 8/20/21 4:01 PM, Tony Whyman wrote:
You can specify such limit - use IBatch::TAG_BUFFER_BYTES_SIZE
parameter in batch parameters block when creating a batch, default is
16Mb, hard limit - 256Mb. Ywo such buffers
ted on a call to createBatch. Instead, you only
know you have a problem when an error is returned from IBatch::add -
looks like the buffer size is simply limited to 256MB.
On 21/08/2021 12:35, Tony Whyman wrote:
On 20/08/2021 16:18, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
On 8/20/21 4:01 PM, Tony Whyman
On 26/11/2021 14:16, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
Tony Whyman wrote 26.11.2021 15:10:
This caused an error message to be generated because only a singleton
row was expected and not a cursor.
Well, all I can say is that "existing connectivity drivers do not
support this feature automagi
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