Category: General news

A few more Firebird fixes are commited in LibreOffice git
Fdo#79493 Refresh Tables option fails with Firebird
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79493

Fdo#73352 firebird don’t claim to support interfaces one doesn’t
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73352

Fdo#74019 – FILEOPEN: Any table or select query having more than 10 fields cannot be opened in a database with embedded FireBird
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74019#c19

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Some days ago ib surgeon published an article about the relationship between Firebird performance and databases growth, where they have tested the 1.7 Terabyte Firebird SQL database. Here you can find more details about such a big database.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes will push the pull requests from github mirror to svn repository
That way is easier to contribute to the project.

Tom Conlon added a Firebird NodeJS example of querying using asynchronous Promises.

The CopyCat development team is pleased to announce a new version of CopyCat LiveMirror, version 1.01.0 !

Changed in this release include :

• Added a button in the LiveMirror Manager to give direct access to the latest log file for the selected configuration.
• Enabled replication for tables having no primary key.
• Excluded temporary tables from replication.
• Set dialect 3 by default during configuration setup.
• Fixed a bug causing replication to fail for ftFmtBCD fields.
• Improved error handling in case of exceptions occurring during database preparation.

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Latest version for Node C++ Module for Firebird from git can be build on MacOSX fixing Linking flags (against regular Firebird installation)

Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.8 is updated with a few cleanups and fixes:
Merge pull request from Ray Zane : Use @config instead of @connection_params.
Fix sequence name limit.