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Firebird related news
Book about Firebird as basis for open documentation
Pavel Cisar wrote about his book
Today, on January 18, 2010, IBProvider celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Today, on January 18, 2010, IBProvider celebrates its 10th anniversary. The grand banquet is preceded by the release of the latest IBProvider version with enhanced support of DDL and updatable rowsets.
- We thank all who have been with us all these years.
- We thank FibPlus, ZStyle Group, Gemini InterBase/Firebird ODBC Driver, Easysoft ODBC-InterBase Driver, IBObjects. Owing to you, we have what to compare IBProvider to; together we make a big deal of promoting Firebird and Intrebase among masses.
- We thank Firebird developers. Owing to you, people have a good free database server.
- We thank our clients. Owing to you, IBProvider has been developed and will be developed.
Changes in IBProvider
- Supports DDL query “COMMENT ON” in Firebird 2.1
- Updatable rowsets code revision in IBProvider
Firebird Complete Introduction #Book in #Japanese is launched
#Python bug: float compared to decimal is silently incorrect
Python Bug that can trigger some errors when upgrading from kinterbasdb 3.2 to kinterbasdb 3.3
if python/kinterbasdb users upgrade kinterbasdb they must be aware of this python bug, because all existing code must be inspected for “(retrieved Decimal value) compare (float)” statements, which before upgrade were Ok (retrieved float value) compare (float)) statements
Firebird support for Identity Columns in 3.0
An identity column is a column associated with an internal sequence generator and has it value automatically set when omitted in an INSERT statement.
Example:
create table objects (
id integer generated by default as identity primary key,
name varchar(15)
);insert into objects (name) values (‘Table’);
insert into objects (name) values (‘Book’);
insert into objects (id, name) values (10, ‘Computer’);select * from objects;
ID NAME
============ ===============
1 Table
2 Book
10 Computer
Login using external authentication temporary disabled
Due to an incompatibility between WordPress 2.9.x, I had to disable temporarily the RPX plugin, responsible for enabling the login of users at FirebirdNews using OpenID, Google, etc. accounts.
The bug was holding new posts to be added to the site. I will re-enable the plugin as soon this get fixed. If you need to login at the site, you will need to have a local account.
Django meets Firebird
Nice blog post about firebird and django
I found this nice project Django-Firebird that will make Django able to use Firebird as the database backend. The process of switching from MySQL to Firebird is painless, but there are some adjustment needed.
FBNews is back ;-)
Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
Firebird 2.5 is now reuploaded to #debian experimental
Firebird 2.5 rc1 package is now uploaded and accepted into debian experimental repository.
and here is howto test it
Update:package is reuploaded , some pdf documentation didn’t had the source in the tar, and for the moment the pdf blobs are removed