This week we released our December update for our back office and point of sale software. In addition to statement emailing that I wrote about last week, we are now exploiting features in the newer Firebird database engine that we use.
New Firebird repository is imported into the New Allura platform , here is checkout URL and you can browse the other branches
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/firebird/code/trunk firebird-code
New Plugin for monitoring FirebirdSQL database status in Nagios is released.
The ChangeLog includes many patches:
Here is the download page.
You can also use pip to install/upgrade the package
sudo pip install firebirdsql
For full list of commits consult the github page
ps: pyFirebirdSQL is pure python so it can work without any other so/dll installed and it can be used for example in places where there is no Firebird client installed (think of an android/ios python script)
Question and answer of the week is related to Firebird default character set by Mark Rotteveel on Stack Overflow
Hi folks,
I just updated the google code version with fixes in introspection. It was backported from github version [1]
So, I encourage to try both but mainly the version at github with the new fdb driver [2].
In that way, we can have our new django-firebird adapter almost stable for release along with the final release of django 1.5.
[1] https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of: Lazarus 1.0.4
This is a bug fix release. Here is the list of changes.
The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page
Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0.4″ directory.
This tutorial takes a brief look at Firebird’s database pages.
For a detailed Database Structure introduction please read Firebird Internals document
This is an online code browser that can be used to read the source code for the Firebird project. It is created using the Woboq Code Browser generator.
It focuses on improving the code navigation with proper semantic highlighting and tooltips. Read more about it in our blog post. Inspired by KDevelop.
Please send us feedback
FDB release 0.9.9 (a.k.a. almost final) is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
New Features:
– Firebird ARRAY support.
Other changes:
– Cursor.execute() returns Self, so it could be used as iterator.
– Reading output from Services now uses more efficient method to get data from server.
Bugs Fixed:
– Fix: precision_cache in Connection works as intended.
This was supposed to be 1.0 final release, but I’ve decided to make 1.0
mode optimized. So 0.9.9 is feature complete driver, and 1.0 release
planed for January 2013 would contain only optimizations (and bug fixes
if needed).
best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix
Full Documentation is here (or in the docs folder in the tar.gz)
