Category: General news

There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2015

The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and polishing. The main remaining issue is that the firebird data format embedded in the .odb file is endianess-dependent. The idea is to switch to Firebird’s “archive” format that is not.

Required skills / knowledge
C++, SQL, Reading other’s code, capacity to work autonomously.
Difficulty
medium
Potential mentors
Lionel Elie Mamane, IRC: schoinobates, mail: lionel AT mamane DOT lu

Improve your favourite Open Source RDBMS with github pull requests and patches .
Here’s a contribution to Firebird core standard deviation and variance buff.ly/1Ek2m0h

Roman Simakov announced BenchmarkSQL for Firebird
I’ve ported BenchmarkSQL for Firebird. It’s TPC-C test working via
JDBC and support PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 and now Firebird.

https://github.com/romansimakov/BenchmarkSQL

I could run it locally and maybe it could be useful to know where we
are comparing to other DBMSs.

Please share you investigations.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes (on the Firebird Development list): “I just built an example of Firebird 3 API usage with FreePascal. As said earlier, working with input/output buffers directly in non-C/C++ is difficult. This requires auxiliary classes. The others things seem ok and easy to use. We need some new functions in the new API, for example, to convert.” status vectors to strings, but this is not specific to Pascal.

node-firebird 0.5.1 released with the following functions implemented for Service Manager:

backup
restore
fixproperties
serverinfo
database validation
commit transaction
rollback transaction
recover transaction
database stats
users infos
user actions (add modify remove)
get firebird file log
tracing

List of functions implemeted :

// each row : fctname : [params], typeofreturn
var fbsvc = {
    "backup" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "nbackup" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "restore" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "nrestore" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "setDialect": { [ "database","dialect"], "stream" },
    "setSweepinterval": { [ "database","sweepinterval"], "stream" },
    "setCachebuffer" : { [ "database","nbpagebuffers"], "stream" },
    "BringOnline" : { [ "database"], "stream" },
    "Shutdown" : { [ "database","shutdown","shutdowndelay","shutdownmode"], "stream" },
    "setShadow" : { [ "database","activateshadow"], "stream" },
    "setForcewrite" : { [ "database","forcewrite"], "stream" },
    "setReservespace" : { [ "database","reservespace"], "stream" },
    "setReadonlyMode" : { [ "database"], "stream" },
    "setReadwriteMode" : { [ "database"], "stream" },
    "validate" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "commit" : { [ "database", "transactid"], "stream" },
    "rollback" : { [ "database", "transactid"], "stream" },
    "recover" : { [ "database", "transactid"], "stream" },
    "getStats" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "getLog" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "getUsers" : { [ "username"], "object" },
    "addUser" : { [ "username", "password", "options"], "stream" },
    "editUser" : { [ "username", "options"], "stream" },
    "removeUser" : { [ "username","rolename"], "stream" },
    "getFbserverInfos" : { [ "options", "options"], "object" },
    "startTrace" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "suspendTrace" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "resumeTrace" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "stopTrace" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "getTraceList" : { [ "options"], "stream" },
    "hasActionRunning" : { [ "options"], "object"}
}

this is an example to use with stream and object

fb.attach(_connection, function(err, svc) { 
    if (err)
        return;
    // all function that return a stream take two optional parameter
    // optread => byline or buffer  byline use isc_info_svc_line and buffer use isc_info_svc_to_eof
    // buffersize => is the buffer for service manager it can't exceed 8ko (i'm not sure)

    svc.getLog({optread:'buffer', buffersize:2048}, function (err, data) {
            // data is a readablestream that contain the firebird.log file
            console.log(err);
            data.on('data', function (data) {
                console.log(data.toString());
            });
            data.on('end', function() {
                console.log('finish');
            });
        });

    // an other exemple to use function that return object
    svc.getFbserverInfos(
            {
            "dbinfo" : true,
            "fbconfig" : true,
            "svcversion" : true,
            "fbversion" : true,
            "fbimplementation" : true,
            "fbcapatibilities" : true,
            "pathsecuritydb" : true,
            "fbenv" : true,
            "fbenvlock" : true,
            "fbenvmsg" : true
        }, {}, function (err, data) {
            console.log(err);
            console.log(data);
        }); 
});

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.4 is available for download

Here is the changelog http://pythonhosted.org//fdb/changelog.html#version-1-4-4

Firebird C++ NodeJS module is updated with 64bit fixes:

Please use this version  if you are on 64bit os : npm install -g firebird-libfbclient

Steve Krämer contributed Firebird Adminer driver

I’m proud to release a first version of my Firebird-Driver for Adminer. Thought, it’s a pre-alpha version. But it’s a first tool for all of those who are looking for a solution right now

C++ NodeJS module is updated with fixes for the Node v.0.12 release.

Fix was related to nan version and api changes.