Re: Firebird backward incompatibility

2016-11-29 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/28/2016 04:30 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:35:59AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Does anyone has considered the glaringly obvious privacy issue of such scheme ? People trade privacy for convenience or the other way round all the time. People that in this

Re: Firebird backward incompatibility

2016-11-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:35:59AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >>> The shell script would be something like: >>> unzip -d oldFirebird.odb temp; >>> gbak -b temp/database/firebird.fdb temp/database/firebird.fbk; >>

Re: Firebird backward incompatibility

2016-11-27 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >> The shell script would be something like: > >> unzip -d oldFirebird.odb temp; >> gbak -b temp/database/firebird.fdb temp/database/firebird.fbk; > insert here: > rm temp/database/firebird.fdb >> zip -FSr

Re: Firebird backward incompatibility

2016-11-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 04:20:06PM +0100, Bunth Tamás wrote: > To use the Firebird driver as the default sdbc driver for Base there > is still a missing feature considered as a blocker. The new built-in > FB3 dbms cannot open old FB2 databases. > Now (since the summer), inside the .odb file

Firebird backward incompatibility

2016-11-25 Thread Bunth Tamás
Hi, To use the Firebird driver as the default sdbc driver for Base there is still a missing feature considered as a blocker. The new built-in FB3 dbms cannot open old FB2 databases. Now (since the summer), inside the .odb file there is a FB archive file stored instead of the .fdb file. So the