New implementation for wire protocol in Jaybird and all drivers need a faster wire protocol

Mark Rotteveel wrote on twitter about the Jaybird improvement:

Writing a new implementation of the wire protocol in Jaybird. I fear it is going to cascade into a total rewrite of the driver

Jiri chatted later:

IMO the whole “communication layer” needs redesign. It’s (way) too legacy.

And later on the twitter channel Brent Rowland wrote:

Contemplating creating a new wire protocol. Stop me now…
I have a replication system for Firebird I need to extend across a WAN. Firebird has no built-in replication and the protocol is chatty.

Editor:All these conversations are around Firebird 2.5.x protocol , there is work conducted by Dmitry Yemanov on improving the Firebird 3.x protocol

FreePascal 2.6.2 is released

FPC 2.6.2 has landed. FPC 2.6.2 is an update to 2.6.0 that
contains most library progress over the 2.6.0 and some crucial
compiler fixes.

Building is still in progress and some formats (deb,rpm) and targets might
not be available yet.

Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2

For Downloads, please use sourceforge

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team
News via Lazarus Forum

New maintainer for the SOCI Firebird SQL project (The C++ Database Access Library)

Here is the tweet with announcement:
Just added Viacheslav Naydenov to SOCI team as new maintainer of FirebirdSQL backend  to be (re)released with SOCI 3.2.0 and 4.0.0

Originally, SOCI was developed by Maciej Sobczak at CERN as abstraction layer for Oracle, a Simple Oracle Call Interface. Later, several database backends have been developed for SOCI, thus the long name has lost its practicality. Currently, if you like, SOCI may stand for Simple Open (Database) Call Interface or something similar.

GitHub hosts SOCI source code repository, issues tracker and wiki: https://github.com/SOCI

Project website at http://soci.sourceforge.net Release downloads and mailing lists at http://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/

Travis CI service at https://travis-ci.org/SOCI/soci

Build Status

 

I’ved created an RSS aggregation site for Object Pascal related blogs

Mosh Choen wrote on Google Plus Lazarus Community page : I have created an RSS aggregation site for Object Pascal related blogs: http://planet.objpas.org/

This is a test run, and the look and feel will be changed in the feature.
If you have a blog or can provide RSS for FPC/Lazarus news please send me a message with the feed details and I’ll add you.

ps:FirebirdNews.org is agregated to the planet

New Firebird / IB Expert Version 2013.02.18 available

New Firebird/IB Expert Version 2013.02.18 available

New features include:

  1. Database Statistics: you can now get statistics for specified tables only.
  2. Code Editors: format selected text using the Editor’s context menu.
  3. Database Login Form/Database Backup/Restore: new Prevent database/transaction triggers from firing option.
  4. IBEBlockNoDBTriggers option implemented.
  5. A few minor bug fixes and small improvements.

New version of gbak scheduler

Hi,

If anyone is interested … new version of Gbak Scheduler has been uploaded to the site https://sites.google.com/site/gbakscheduler/

What is new in version 1.0.11:

  • Added per-task option to use Service Manager when performing backup.
  • Added per-task option to run actions (custom programs or scripts) before and after execution of backup.
  • Adden per-task option for sending an email with error details when there is an error in executing backup task.

About Gbak Scheduler:
GBAK Scheduler is an Interbase / Firebird backup utility that performs regular database backups with a user defined strategy. It is Windows service application. It has been in use since 1997.

Best regards,

Simon

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