Firebird NETProvider source moved to subversion
Sources has been moved to the subversion repository, they can be browsed here: http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/NETProvider/
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
News from Dmitry Yemanov
Query cancelation
Implementation of the statement cancellation feature has been committed into the version 2.1. It works via the monitoring tables – you just need to issue the DELETE command against the MON$STATEMENTS table (there’s no API implementation yet). It could be done by the application itself (using a secondary attachment) or by a server administrator. Examples:
DELETE FROM MON$STATEMENTS
WHERE MON$STATEMENT_ID = ?
or
DELETE FROM MON$STATEMENTS
WHERE MON$ATTACHMENT_ID = ? AND MON$STATEMENT_STATE = 1 -- active
The feature works for both SS and CS engines. The client application receives the GDS error code isc_cancelled.
Trusted authentication on Windows
Ability to authenticate Firebird users through a Windows domain is now available in the source tree and will be included into the v2.1 release. An up-to-date client library is required in order to use this feature. CURRENT_USER represents a logged in Windows domain user in this case. It’s expected that firebird.conf will introduce an option allowing you to choose between native-only, trusted-only and mixed authentication modes.
Firebird Maestro 6.12 released
SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 6.12, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.
New version features tabbed document interface, procedure parameters history, OLAP viewer, improved BLOB Viewer/Editor, large scripts processing and some other useful things. Read full press release.
Firebird Maestro developed by SQL Maestro Group, which also offers complete database admin and SQL development tools for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and MaxDB.
Porting firebird 2.0 for MAC OS X
Hi all, I [Jakub Zeman] fixed firebird 2.0 RC4 for MAC OS X. You will need following tools:
flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo
I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then
emerge flamerobin on Gentoo
Recent porting efforts
Two Linux ports have been contributed recently – MIPSEL and PowerPC (credits go to Fabrice Aeschbacher and Damyan Ivanov). Also, Paul Beach has ported v1.5.3 to HP-UX (already available for download) and Alex Peshkoff has almost completed porting the same version to AIX. And finally, port to Win64 (so far AMD64 and EM64T only) is committed into the HEAD branch and will be available in the v2.1 release.
via Firebird Developer’s Journal
Preparing for v2.0 Final Release
The CVS tree has been tagged for the final v2.0 release. The builds will be available for download as soon as they pass the QA procedures. [From: Dmitry Yemanov/Firebird Developer’s Journal]
Lazarus and FPC will be on the Systems 2006
Lazarus and FPC developers will be on the Systems 2006 in Munich in October in hall A3 booth 542. They will try to be there on all 5 days. You can find more information about the Systems 2006 here.
[Ed:you can meet the team and talk about the lazarus ide, oopascal , firebird , open source , free beer ;)]
Patch for the Linux/PPC port – ready
Hi,
Finally, the patch is here. Thanks to Yavor Doganov, who provided me
with access to a PPC machine and was kind enough not to kick me out when
I filled its disks more than once 🙂
Damyan Ivanov restarted the linux powerpc port
You can watch the powerpc porting thread on sf.net devel mailing list
UPDATE:firebird started on powerpc (make passed create_db stage so first database was correctly created on that platform)