> Mark, > In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources > the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean?
For cross-version compatibilty, most objects have a version number, sometimes called "incarnation". Objects that have not changed will be zero. At least that's what it meant originally. The header file that declares the object should have all versions. Cheers, Ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
