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Getting back to some old ideas
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes has started a new brainstorming attempt targeted to the old subject of domains being used in procedure parameters and PSQL variables. He offers the prototype implementation and asks for comments. Possibilities to allow NOT NULL and CHECK constraints for parameters/variables are also being discussed. If you’re interested, please follow the discussion in the “firebird-architect” list.

Better error reporting
Did you ever debug a big complex procedure that fails in runtime with a famous “arithmetic exception” error? How much time did it take to find the problematic statement?
Now it should become much easier. Starting with v2.0, you get a stack trace which mentions the failed procedure/trigger along with all its callers. And the next (post-2.0) Firebird version will also report you the line and column numbers (inside the current PSQL body) of the failed statement.

Thanks to Eugene Putilin and Vlad Horsun for this contribution.

Dmitry Yemanov comments about our currently poll

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There are more than 500 votes already, so I think the current results are quite representative and hence they actually (more or less) reflect the features people would like to see implemented. Let me comment the top ones.

1. SMP support is a clear winner (23% of votes) in the poll. And this is definitely one of the high priority tasks in the project. As you know, it was the major goal of the Vulcan development and its implementation is being currently tested. The public test versions will be available soon for those who’s willing to test it in real-world scenarios. The final SMP implementation is targeted for the v3.0 release, as stated in our roadmap.

Survey results

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The survey results are available at our website. A few participants may have not received the report as their email addresses were bouncing back.

I take this oppurtunity to welcome each one of you who did not participate in the survey to register at our website and download the Report.

Best regards,
Nitin

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Borland and Firebird, friends?

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At last in Brazil, the relationship between Borland and Firebird community is getting better. For the second year, Borland is sponsoring the Firebird Developers Day conference. You can check the nice promotion banner they included in their June newsletter clicking here.

I hope things will get even better when “DevCo” starts running.

KInterbasDB 3.2rc1 Released

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KInterbasDB is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for the open source relational database Firebird and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland Interbase. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, InterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.

See the release announcement at here.

DeZign for Databases V4.1

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Datanamic is pleased to announce the release of DeZign for Databases V4.1, the latest version of its easy-to-use database modeling tool. DeZign for Databases V4.1, the first feature release since DeZign for Databases V4.0, includes a wide range of performance enhancements and a number functionality additions.

All the changes can be viewed here.

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