[firebird-support] Is safe to downgrade from 2.5.3 to 2.5.2?

2014-11-10 Thread Roberto Schneiders roberto.schneid...@monde.com.br [firebird-support]
Hi, Some of our clients are suffering with the CORE-4546 issue and I need to know if I can simply downgrade from 2.5.3 to 2.5.2. Roberto Schneiders Monde Sistemas (19) 3478-8880 www.monde.com.br

[firebird-support] internal gds software consistency check

2014-11-10 Thread sboyd...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
This past weekend I tried to upgrade a site from 2.0.5 to 2.0.7. This failed miserably. Firstly, no sooner did I get more than 1 user logged into the database I started getting errors: internal gds software consistency check (Attempt to call GlobalRWLock::unlock() while not holding a val

Re: [firebird-support] pointer returned by FREE_IT not allocated by ib_util_malloc

2014-11-10 Thread Ivan Arabadzhiev intelru...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Well, it`s hard to help without code but I understand. Personally, I`d try to refactor things so GetResultBfr isn`t static (but my gut has been wrong before ...) There are opensource UDFs out there - ask google and try to compile one on your own (just in case there is something wrong elsewhere).

Re: [firebird-support] pointer returned by FREE_IT not allocated by ib_util_malloc

2014-11-10 Thread sboyd...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
The code is a bit involved because it supports multiple versions of Firebird and multiple OSes. However, the windows version calls this function to get the buffer returned by FREE_IT: static char * GetResultBfr (int len) { return ((char *) ib_util_malloc (len)); } My DLL is linked t

Re: [firebird-support] pointer returned by FREE_IT not allocated by ib_util_malloc

2014-11-10 Thread Ivan Arabadzhiev intelru...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-1937 Meaning that`s the first version to actually check :) The question is *how* is it linked. To be honest - I`m not sure how you`d link internally if you wanted to, but I can`t think of another reason why the engine would be complaining. Any chance you

Re: [firebird-support] pointer returned by FREE_IT not allocated by ib_util_malloc

2014-11-10 Thread sboyd...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
>Is the udf linked properly (meaning externally linked to the proper >>ib_util_malloc) ? Given that it works with everything but 2.5 I would have to say yes? But that raises the questions: How would I know? And why should the link be any different for 2.5 than for 2.0? It all jus