Ian wrote: > We got the idea from The Firebird Book, and after that I can't find > mention of it being deprecated in 2.0 release notes or later.
Not deprecated but abolished. If something is "deprecated", it is still valid but likely to be dropped in a subsequent release. From Fb 2 onward, Fb was made more tolerant of directory names with spaces, hence the need to drop such embellishments. (Not that made anything like sufficientt impact on my consciousness in 2013-4 to remember it affected TempDirectories - q.v.) > From > the 2004 book, page 745 (I know it's older than my daughter ;-): > "TempDirectories > Version 1.5 forward > Supply a list of one or more directories, separated by semicolons > (;), under which sort files may be stored. Each item may include an > optional size argument. in bytes, to limit its storage..... > TempDirectories = userdata\sortfiles 5000000 > " It has subsequently become a myth that has survived into TFB Second Edition. I can fix that. > And also in the 1.5.6 release notes > https://firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/config-fb-conf.html, and then > hanging around in something that claims to be the Firebird 2 > Administrators manual, but now I look closer it isn't obvi ously a > core fb site: > http://www.janus-software.com/fbmanual/manual.php?book=admin&topic=42 No, it's not. > I can't find it mentioned anywhere else though, except in things > like http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-2151 where the author was > still using it... The author of that ticket was the developer who wrote the parser code. ;-) It looks as though he'd discovered unintended behaviour when the parser landed on a space in a directory name...the older code to truncate out anything following a space (i.e., assumed to be the now-invalid allocation size) was gaily truncating forward from the first space in the directory name itself. (That was an amazing piece of searching that dug that up!) Helen --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
