Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird db integration big-endian LibreOffice unable to open little-endian embedded firebird db

2014-01-13 Thread Alex
On 01/14/2014 12:52 AM, Andrzej Hunt wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been doing some of the work on using the backup format for LO: > > Unfortunately we have no choice but to use the backup format as we > have to have to be endian-agnostic. However speed shouldn't be too > huge an issue as I suspect most

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird db integration big-endian LibreOffice unable to open little-endian embedded firebird db

2014-01-13 Thread Ann Harrison
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Andrzej Hunt wrote: > > > Unfortunately we have no choice but to use the backup format as we > have to have to be endian-agnostic. > It's possible to modify Firebird to be endian agnostic - I did it for a customer some years ago. Works fine for metadata and struc

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird db integration big-endian LibreOffice unable to open little-endian embedded firebird db

2014-01-13 Thread Andrzej Hunt
Hi All, I've been doing some of the work on using the backup format for LO: Unfortunately we have no choice but to use the backup format as we have to have to be endian-agnostic. However speed shouldn't be too huge an issue as I suspect most users (when using a database embedded in a .odb) won't