Components: Build Issues / Porting
Affects Versions: 4.0 Beta 1, 2.5.9, 3.0.5
Environment: All platforms
Reporter: Helen Borrie
John Frankland in firebird-devel and several other forums:
> What is the practice regarding digital signing of Firebird executables and
> installe
Affects Versions: 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0
Environment: Windows 10
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
C:\Programs64\Firebird_3_0>gstat -h
c:\programs64\firebird_2_5\examples\empbuild\employee.fdb
Wrong ODS version, expected 12, encountered 11
It should have repor
Components: Engine
Affects Versions: 4.0 Initial
Environment: Any
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
Function RDB$ROLE_IN_USE takes a varchar(32), which is meant to be a role name.
Varchar(32) won't be long enough to take
a longer role name.
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Issue Type: Bug
Components: Engine
Affects Versions: 3.0.1, 2.5.6
Environment: Any
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
line/column numbers are not shown in the error message for first SP,
but are shown in the error message for second SP:
SET TERM
Affects Versions: 3.0.1, 4.0 Initial
Environment: Any
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
Is it a trivial change to enable conversion of an integer type column that is
populated from a generator from a trigger to IDENTITY type?
Example
create
: ISQL
Affects Versions: 3.0.1, 2.5.6, 3.0.0, 4.0 Initial
Environment: Any environment.
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
It would be useful to display the text from RDB$DESCRIPTION in the SHOW
commands for object types that have COMMENT ON syntax
: 2.5.6
Environment: Windows 64-bit platform and installation, V.2.5.5
installation updated to 2.5.6 via zip file, existing .conf files and
security2.fdb from 2.5.5 copied over while service stopped.
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Gbak returning "user name and password not de
Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 7:03:12 AM, Dmitry wrote:
> 16.02.2016 20:07, Leyne, Sean wrote:
>>
>> Would INSERTs (as below) to a table count as a context?
> Sure. Every table reference is a context. Be it SELECT/INSERT/whatever.
> For UPDATE it takes two contexts.
What if one were to replace s
> 10.11.2015 15:19, liviuslivius wrote:
>> and also on page 110:
>> "See also: Tracker ticket CORE-4919" - this tracker ticket have not
>> correlation with subject
>> I suppose that different number should be?
>> regards,
Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 2:34:20 AM, Vlad wrote:
>Looks like typo
Hello Dmitry,
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 8:55:30 PM, you wrote:
> Snapshots are rebuilt and re-uploaded.
Thanks - downloaded the x64 7z kit and it's OK.
Helen
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Hello Dmitry,
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 7:25:53 PM, you wrote:
> Current trunk. It was changed between Beta 2 and RC1.
When can we expect to get snapshots? Currently the Windows snapshots
are just the Examples sub-tree or, in the case of the PDB kits, just
fbclient and engine12 dlls.
Helen
Hello Dmitry,
> 15.10.2015 09:21, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>> Where is this? It's not in Fb3 Beta2 config file...
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 7:25:53 PM, you wrote:
> Current trunk. It was changed between Beta 2 and RC1.
Thanks
Hello Dmitry,
> 15.10.2015 04:43, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>> Classic & Superclassic: SharedCache=0, SharedDatabase=1
>> So - what configuration parameter distinguishes Superclassic from
>> Classic?
Thursday, October
> 14.10.2015 15:02, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
>>
>> Since operation mode is now configured in config file, does firebird.exe
>> still require
>> -m switch to be multi-threaded?
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 2:24:10 AM, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> No.
Classic & Superclassic: SharedCache=0, SharedDataba
At 01:06 a.m. 8/10/2015, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>On 10/07/2015 02:59 PM, Paul Vinkenoog wrote:
>> Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>>>> ExternalFileAccess = Restrict 'ExternalFiles';
>>> OK, so now I changed this to:
>>>
>>> ExternalFileAcces
At 09:10 p.m. 7/10/2015, Paul Reeves wrote:
>On Wednesday 07 Oct 2015 14:57:48 Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>> ExternalFileAccess = Restrict 'H:\externalfiles';
>> (tried it with and without the semicolon)
>>
>
>Is h: a mapped networked drive or is it l
At 08:45 p.m. 7/10/2015, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>For what I understand the config should read
>>DatabaseAccess = Restrict h:\externalfiles
>As to the format - copy/pasting from firebird.conf:
>
>"#
># External File Paths/Directories
At 05:07 p.m. 7/10/2015, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:hele...@tpg.com.au]
>> Sent: Miércoles, 07 de Octubre de 2015 0:45
>>
>> I wonder who is the "user" to which Windows is denying access
&g
At 03:25 p.m. 7/10/2015, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:hele...@tpg.com.au]
>> Sent: Martes, 06 de Octubre de 2015 22:58
>>
>> Configuring ExternalFileAccess with Restrict in v.2.5.4 SS on
>> Win7
Configuring ExternalFileAccess with Restrict in v.2.5.4 SS on Win7 doesn't seem
to work properly. Full does work; None (the default) works. Restrict seems
not to work as documented in firebird.conf.
RECREATE TABLE EXT_LOG
EXTERNAL FILE 'h:\externalfiles\test1.txt' (
STAMP CHAR(24),
MES
At 06:59 p.m. 21/09/2015, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
>21.09.2015 09:08, Simonov Denis wrote:
>
>>> 1. Can a string literal really be 64Kb if, internally, it is converted
>>> to varchar?
>
>Yes, it can. Internally our varchars allow strings up to 64KB, but this
>is not always respected in other layers,
Flagged as an improvement in RC1:
core-4881 "Increase maximum string literal length to 64K (bytes) while setting
a lower limit (of characters) for multibyte charsets based on their max char.
length (UTF-8 literals will be limited to 16383 characters)"
1. Can a string literal really be 64Kb if,
All,
I'm trying (or it is trying!) to do the release notes for RC1. Several
"improvements" regarding what's legal for user names and passwords are flagged
in WhatsNew but apparently there is no documentation describing what, why or
how.
All I can conclude from reading through the descriptions
At 01:40 p.m. 17/09/2015, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:
>Strange assertion in FBLangRef.
It's not a perfect world. ;-)
Muchas gracias!
Helen
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The new FBLangref 25 says RDB$VIEW_RELATIONS is not used in current versions.
As Mark R. has pointed in his review (and as I meant to ask before, and forgot
to!) it clearly *is* used or, at least, populated when a view is created.
What's the back-story?
Helen
: Any
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
This is a suggestion for a new feature in isql.
Currently, it is not possible to change the attributes of the default
transaction in isql. Whilst you can use SET TRANSACTION to start one
transaction that is not the global
A series of questions from a newbie in firebird-support prompted me to try and
reproduce his results. He is trying to chart the effects of READ WRITE READ
COMMITTED transactions in two simultaneous isql sessions, with and without WAIT
and RECORD_VERSION. His theory was that using SET TRANSACTIO
At 08:28 p.m. 14/09/2015, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
> NO RECORD_VERSION is the default for READ COMMITTED and it was not changed
> since FB 0.x times.
>I.e. if TPB containts "isc_tpb_read_committed" tag and contains nor
>isc_tpb_rec_version, nor
>isc_tpb_no_rec_version, engine will create READ COMMI
According to both editions of The Firebird Book, for read/write read committed
transactions, RECORD_VERSION is the default. According to the Firebird 2.5
Language Reference, NO RECORD_VERSION is the default.
So - which is it? Did it change at some point? If so, at which
release/sub-release?
At 05:15 a.m. 28/06/2015, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>On 27-06-2015 04:19, JiÅÃ ÄinÄura wrote: >> Just a way to store the order
>you passed. > > I know it doesn't matter now, but is there a reason to store
>the order? >
>Extract the metadata in the same way it was created, I guess
At 02:36 p.m. 7/03/2015, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Paul Beach [mailto:pbe...@ibphoenix.com]
>> Sent: Jueves, 05 de Marzo de 2015 12:07
>>
>> The IPL license hosted on IBPhoenix was the license
>> originally used, i.e. we hosted the original license that
At 09:16 p.m. 5/03/2015, marius adrian popa wrote:
>While there can we upgrade the license to mpl2 ?
No. The source code we used for Firebird is licensed under MPL v.1.0. *That*
version of the source code, *that* version of the MPL.
Helen
At 09:31 p.m. 8/12/2014, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:48:21 +1300, Helen Borrie
>wrote:
>> The release notes in your Fb3 download kit are missing the Compatibility
>> chapter (Ch. 12), which explains what you need to do.
>>
>> Please download t
At 09:03 p.m. 8/12/2014, Werner wrote:
>
>
>I think there is a typo in the section "Execution Modes":
>
>It states:
>Superserver is set up using the configuration SharedDatabase = true and
>SharedCache = true
>
>but I think it should be, as the above contradicts the statement made in the
>"Tabl
At 09:17 a.m. 8/12/2014, liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
> >>The release notes in your Fb3 download kit are missing the Compatibility
> >>chapter (Ch. 12), which explains what you need to do. >>Please download the
> >>newest build of the release notes from here:
> http://web.firebirdsql
At 05:39 a.m. 8/12/2014, liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i can not connect to firebird 3 from .Net
>I do not know if this is becaouse of >net provider
>
>my connection string is:
>character set=UTF8;client library="C:\Users\livius\Documents\Visual Studio
>2013\Projects\TestFB3\TestFB3
>19.11.2014 11:37, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:28:15 +0200, Vlad Khorsun
>> wrote:
>...
>>> Seems, recently introduced support for IPv6 doens't work in XP.
>>> It is currently investigated.
>>
>> Windows XP doesn't have IPv6 installed/enabled by default IIRC. Maybe that
>>
Dear Boys.
At 09:03 p.m. 22/10/2014, Robbert-Jan wrote:
>Already reported by DOC-92.
>
>-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
>From: Mark Rotteveel
>Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:14 PM
>To: firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Firebird-devel] Bug release notes 3.0 Alpha 2
>
>Helen,
>
>
At 06:46 a.m. 2/07/2014, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>In various places of the Firebird wire protocol and the Firebird sources
>the term 'incarnation' is used. What does this mean?
(fig.) Bringing into existence; (lit.) Embodiment in human flesh.
Helen
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At 04:08 a.m. 1/03/2014, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> What is the meaning of subj? 100 is "no more data", but 101?..
101 | 335544366 | segment | Segment buffer length shorter than expected
Something to do with your next "Old API and wide result set" and a BLOB
sub_type 1?
H
-
At 08:15 p.m. 28/02/2014, Alex wrote:
>[Mark Rotteveel]
>> If you didn't enable legacy auth in the installer, then it only creates
>> the 'new auth' sysdba account.
>
>Legacy SYSDBA is present in security database when it's installed. With
>masterke password - according to legacy rules :)
So...th
At 11:42 p.m. 27/02/2014, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>On 02/27/14 14:19, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
>> Observation: I had to commit explicitly following the CREATE USER
>> statement. I guess it's really not "pure DDL" to be affected by
>> autoddl=on...?
>
&
At 12:59 a.m. 28/02/2014, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:32:20 +1300, Helen Borrie
>wrote:
>> With Fb 3 alpha 2 on Windows, is there any way to get SYSDBA into the
>> security database, other than installing everything on Linux first,
>> initializing it th
At 10:03 p.m. 27/02/2014, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>On 02/27/14 12:32, Helen Borrie wrote:
>> With Fb 3 alpha 2 on Windows, is there any way to get SYSDBA into the
>> security database, other than installing everything on Linux first,
>> initializing it there and file-copying t
With Fb 3 alpha 2 on Windows, is there any way to get SYSDBA into the security
database, other than installing everything on Linux first, initializing it
there and file-copying the security db to the Windows box?
Helen
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At 08:24 a.m. 26/01/2014, Simonov Denis wrote:
> However there will be a problem of homonymy of schemas and packets.
What is meant by "packets"? Same as packages? Something else?
>However current situation should be reflected in Release Notes.
From a design perspective, my simple-minded v
: Improvement
Components: Build Issues / Porting
Affects Versions: 3.0 Alpha 1, 2.5.2 Update 1, 2.1.5 Update 1, 2.5.2,
2.1.5, 2.0.7
Environment: All 64-bit platforms, all versions
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
It is seemingly impossible to
At 07:26 a.m. 19/07/2013, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>On 18-7-2013 15:44, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>> On 07/18/13 17:30, marius adrian popa wrote:
>>> At least should be a link that works
>>>
>>> http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/interbase-public-license/
>>
>> No, we can't change something in Inprise license.
At 08:18 a.m. 5/04/2013, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>On the other hand: using select * for anything other than ad-hoc queries
>is bad. Should we support that?
AFAIK, there's a long legacy, in Delphi components at least, of using SELECT *
as the dataset spec for emulating a "table" component (TTable
Library
Affects Versions: 2.5.2, 2.1.5, 3.0 Initial
Environment: Windows, all versions since we started supporting 64-bit,
32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Probably other platforms too. I think MacOSX
takes care of this problem.
Reporter: Helen Borrie
In the property sheet of
>28.01.2013 19:48, Helen Borrie wrote:
>> A related issue: This particular database has a very large amount of
>> metadata and the extract script was rejected by isql -input as being too
>> large for its buffer. Do we know what the limit on isql's buffer size is?
>>> gbak: ERROR:action cancelled by trigger (3) to preserve data integrity
>>> gbak: ERROR:table/procedure has non-SQL security class defined
>>> gbak:Exiting before completion due to errors
>>>
>>> What does the error signify?
28.01.2013 15:25, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>> Probably a bug. Can
Backup of an ODS 11.2 database was made on a v.2.5 server using the gbak.exe
from v.2.0. The database structure doesn't use anything that v.2.0 doesn't
support and has no permissions depending on the RDB$ADMIN role. The backup
completed without any errors.
During the restore on the v.2.0.7 se
At 07:57 AM 5/10/2012, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>> Why does Firebird return such a low level OS-dependent(?) error message
>> instead of returning a Firebird-specific message that explains what went
>> wrong (eg creating temporary files), instead of why it failed (the
>> low-level error message)?
>
>-
At 09:32 AM 22/07/2012, nezos wrote:
>Greetings, i have a new database which i populated with the membership tables
>and procedures using the 2.1 scripts.
>
>After that i decided not to use SYSDBA (everything works) and added a user
>and a role. I granted permissions then i saw that i couldn't run
: Installation
Affects Versions: 2.5.1, 2.5.0
Environment: Any? or just Windows?
Reporter: Helen Borrie
Priority: Minor
In prior versions, DatabaseAccess was configured to None by default. In V.2.5+
it appears to be configured to Full by default. If this
: 2.5.0
Environment: Any
Reporter: Helen Borrie
When a shutdown is requested with -attach and -tran switches and a non-zero
timeout, connection requestors are left waiting until the timeout completes,
with no message to explain why they can't connect. This is espec
Project: Firebird Core
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Security
Affects Versions: 2.5.1
Environment: We tested on 32-bit Windows but the issues should be
platform-independent.
Reporter: Helen Borrie
1. With CREATE USER, cannot create a user name starting with a
At 07:20 PM 17/12/2011, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
>17.12.2011 8:34, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>> fbrmclib.dll in the v.2.5.n \bin\ folder: what is it?
>
>Some utility library related to the GPRE / RM Cobol support contributed
>by Steve Boyd a while
All:
fbrmclib.dll in the v.2.5.n \bin\ folder: what is it?
Thanks,
Helen
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At 10:50 PM 30/11/2011, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>On 30/11/2011 03:53, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>> On 11/30/11 02:42, Frank Ingermann wrote:
>>> DROP SOURCE OF [||*]
>>> or
>>> CHANGE OWNER OF [|*] TO
>> This approach looks much better than use of system package.
>>
>>
>I don't think bloat
At 08:40 PM 29/11/2011, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>I'd better think about an ability to use BLOB in COMMENT. On the other
>hand, is it really required to have comments >32765/3 characters? This
>looks sooner not like a comment, but an average size presentation :)
Well it could be. Are we going to di
At 02:03 AM 29/11/2011, Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Dmitry presented at the conference some things (AFAIK e.g. changing NULL
>to NOT NULL and vice versa) in Firebird 3, which replaces the need for
>directly updating the system tables, as this might be disallowed in FB 3
>anyway. He aske
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v.2.5.1 release
candidate kits for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready for
testing.
http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5-1-rc1
MacOSX kits are delayed by a problem with MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) but should appear
soon.
E
At 11:39 PM 9/08/2011, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>Root directory for windows embedded was changed according to this ticket :
>
>http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-1814
Thanks, got it.
>See also http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-2719
Seems unrelated...typo?
>Deployment r
Vlad,
At 08:19 AM 9/08/2011, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>Usually you need to change default RootDirectory to specify place of
>security2.fdb, firebird.msg and firebird.log. Before v2.5 RootDirectory for
>embedded was defined as one folder upper than application's folder. In
>v2.5 RootDirectory is
At 07:29 AM 10/05/2011, Leyne, Sean wrote:
>> > So, again, do not make assumptions about the viability of a feature
>> > when you are not familiar with how it is used in the field.
>>
>> What about your assumption that Firebird should worry about your
>> outdated/custom/unique OSs for every new r
Alex,
At 09:32 PM 15/04/2011, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>If you have
>DatabaseAccess = Restrict /some/path
>in firebird.conf, each connection to server:database.fdb (when
>database.fdb is not found in aliases.conf) will expand to
>server:/some/path/database.fdb.
>
>What about exactly what you want - w
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