Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2019-06-14 19:12, Lester Caine wrote: On 14/06/2019 16:22, Mark Rotteveel wrote: While implementing this feature in Jaybird I even considered using the approach used by the PostgreSQL JDBC and that was simply always using the UTC time and not even bothering with the offset and region inform

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2019-06-14 20:27, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 14/06/2019 13:01, Mark Rotteveel wrote: And I repeat what I said earlier: if Firebird uses an offset that is too large then I can't use the standard features in Java for date/time handling and I'll need to mangle things myself to get a

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 14/06/2019 13:01, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > And I repeat what I said earlier: if Firebird uses an offset that is > too large then I can't use the standard features in Java for date/time > handling and I'll need to mangle things myself to get a - hopefully - > meaningful value. What is the Java ra

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/06/2019 16:22, Mark Rotteveel wrote: While implementing this feature in Jaybird I even considered using the approach used by the PostgreSQL JDBC and that was simply always using the UTC time and not even bothering with the offset and region information. PostgreSQL's built in timezone han

Re: [Firebird-devel] Build, install and test 3.0 on Debian 10

2019-06-14 Thread Gabor Boros
2019. 06. 14. 15:16 keltezéssel, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel írta: What do ldd isql (in appropriate bin dirs)   and ldd /usr/lib64/libfbclient.so show in both cases? With own build /usr/local/firebird/bin$ ldd isql linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffe53561000) libfbclient.so.2 =>

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 14-6-2019 17:33, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 14.06.2019 17:09, Mark Rotteveel wrote: And that is not really workable if the client does want to use offset based values and for example doesn't know the zone Firebird uses, or if Firebird uses an offset that is too large.   It doesn't matter.

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 14-6-2019 15:45, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 14.06.2019 16:27, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: So as everyone has they own names, Firebird has it too. And it also has the IDs. So IDs and names are fixed in Firebird and to use ICU Firebird maps these names to ICU names (a actual 1-1 as currently t

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
14.06.2019 17:09, Mark Rotteveel wrote: And that is not really workable if the client does want to use offset based values and for example doesn't know the zone Firebird uses, or if Firebird uses an offset that is too large. It doesn't matter. In Vlad's suggestion server always sends to clien

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 14-6-2019 14:56, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 14.06.2019 14:58, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I prefer the current approach where the time is communicated in UTC with the offset or region information added for presentation purposes. Having the time in UTC will always allow a fallback to at least a usable va

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 14-6-2019 15:25, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 14.06.2019 16:17, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Do you even worked with a library doing datetime logic in a way suitable for multiple time zones? Every one stores the UTC time more the region _or_ offset. The displayable value is calculated only whe

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/06/2019 14:27, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Note that ICU is a theoretical implementation detail, so Firebird has a gateway for it also in the client to not reimplement it. But this is important: at least currently, ICU is an implementation detail. Currently if Firebird wants to imp

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Vlad Khorsun
14.06.2019 16:27, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 14/06/2019 09:56, Vlad Khorsun wrote:   Mapping between region_ID and regin_Name could be easily obtained from server (RDB$TIME_ZONES) if necessary. It could be done once per client process lifetime. Initial mapping could be hardcoded in

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 14/06/2019 10:25, Vlad Khorsun wrote: >>> >> Do you even worked with a library doing datetime logic in a way suitable >> for multiple time zones? >> >> Every one stores the UTC time more the region _or_ offset. The >> displayable value is calculated only when one wants to display the >> value. >

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
14.06.2019 15:17, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Every one stores the UTC time more the region_or_ offset. Nobody is talking about *store* here. The displayable value is calculated only when one wants to display the value. Yes, and this is the moment when _server_ executes a query

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 14/06/2019 09:56, Vlad Khorsun wrote: > >   Mapping between region_ID and regin_Name could be easily obtained > from server > (RDB$TIME_ZONES) if necessary. It could be done once per client > process lifetime. > Initial mapping could be hardcoded into Jaybird and updated when > necessary. > We c

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Vlad Khorsun
14.06.2019 16:17, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 13/06/2019 17:05, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 13.06.2019 16:44, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 13.06.2019 12:43, Vlad Khorsun wrote: First, you loose things. The adjusted (displayable) timestamp is not convertible back for duplicate

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 13/06/2019 17:05, Vlad Khorsun wrote: > 13.06.2019 16:44, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: >> On 13.06.2019 12:43, Vlad Khorsun wrote: >> First, you loose things. The adjusted (displayable) timestamp is not convertible back for duplicated timestamps (DST end). >>> >>>   Not sure

Re: [Firebird-devel] Build, install and test 3.0 on Debian 10

2019-06-14 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 14.06.2019 9:00, Gabor Boros wrote: 2019. 06. 13. 10:51 keltezéssel, Paul Beach írta: a, is there a findable symlink from libfbclient.so.2 to the real name of libfbclient (probably libfbclient.so.3.0.5) b, is the installer creating it? Output of "find / -name "libfbclient*" -type l -ls" w

Re: [Firebird-devel] Build, install and test 3.0 on Debian 10

2019-06-14 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 14.06.2019 12:37, Gabor Boros wrote: 2019. 06. 13. 10:51 keltezéssel, Paul Beach írta: b, is the installer creating it? I see some difference between the two install.sh files. The trivial /opt/firebird vs /usr/local/firebird and two times "if [ "yes" = "yes" ]" vs "if [ "no" = "yes" ]".

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Vlad Khorsun
14.06.2019 14:58, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 2019-06-13 22:12, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 13.06.2019 17:02, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 13/06/2019 06:43, Vlad Khorsun wrote:    I don't offer to change internal representation (UTC + offset\region_id) as is. This is the only way to have corr

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2019-06-13 22:05, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 13.06.2019 16:44, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 13.06.2019 12:43, Vlad Khorsun wrote: First, you loose things. The adjusted (displayable) timestamp is not convertible back for duplicated timestamps (DST end).   Not sure i got you. Could y

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Firebird 4: Could not find acceptable ICUlibrary

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2019-06-13 22:12, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 13.06.2019 17:02, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 13/06/2019 06:43, Vlad Khorsun wrote:   I don't offer to change internal representation (UTC + offset\region_id) as is. This is the only way to have correct comparison of timestamp with time z

Re: [Firebird-devel] Build, install and test 3.0 on Debian 10

2019-06-14 Thread Gabor Boros
2019. 06. 13. 10:51 keltezéssel, Paul Beach írta: b, is the installer creating it? I see some difference between the two install.sh files. The trivial /opt/firebird vs /usr/local/firebird and two times "if [ "yes" = "yes" ]" vs "if [ "no" = "yes" ]". What is this "if" thing? I hope it's a jo