On 2019-08-30 15:36, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
30.08.2019 15:27, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
For some applications that makes sense.
Look: you have an old database without new data types and an old
application that works with it. The only way to put this old
application into troubles is to _change_ type of an old field because
with newly added tables and fields the application will be fine as it
has no idea about them.
Now tell me: does changing of old fields into new datatypes really
make sense?
Have you never used tools or libraries that didn't support newer
features of Firebird? These compatibility options are extremely
necessary, especially with all kinds of tools that are still being used
but aren't being maintained anymore.
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