On Tuesday 28 October 2014 10:37:21 Michal Kubecek wrote about multiple installs under linux: > > Multiple installations would be tricky indeed. On the other hand, having > multiple instances of one installed version is quite easy and we also > have lightweight virtualization techniques like LXC containers which > could be used for multiple installations. So I'm not sure if this is > really limiting.
Yes, I think containers might be a much better solution to this problem. > Just an idea... how about going in the opposite direction and providing > something like Apache (IP based) virtual servers? By allowing to bind > part of the configuration (e.g. DatabaseAccess, ExternalFileAccess, > aliases, ...) to a combination of address and port (or other form of > local socket address), Firebird could pose as multiple virtual database > servers. It wouldn't help with multiple versions or combination of > superserver and classic but it could make handling some of the shared > setups easier. > I like that idea. I think it is possible, just by setting the $FIREBIRD variable for each instance - the server will look there for things 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
