News from the Firebird developers.
I’ve done some changes regarding SS installation. This mainly deals with
Slackware support, but some changes concerning another things are also
done. Who interested, may try Snapshot builds from
http://www.insi.yaroslavl.ru/fb/.
Alex Peshkov
Are you ready for TPC-C based test results? Are you looking forward to know who is the winner?!
Be prepared – 4th issue of IBDeveloper is coming soon!
Just take a look on this image – it’s one of our test results:
Want to know who is who? Read our magazine!
Since IBPhoenix is a UK Ltd company – it has a right to issue shares to potential investors in the company, I have been contemplating this for quite a while, and wondered if there would be any interest out there for Firebird users, companies etc that would like to become shareholders in IBPhoenix? There are a number of reasons for thinking about this…
If you want a fresh copy of firebird but can’t because the problem of
the anonymous CVS, you can download the whole FB CVS tree at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/firebird-cvsroot.tar.bz2
Summer of Code 2006 site is open for ideas
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
As organizations begin to sign up for Summer of Code, you will see a list of organizations and links to their ideas for student projects. We are not taking student applications just yet, see the FAQ for more details.
[ED: firebird foundation or ibphoenix can add some ideas now and participate as mentors]
From Dmitry Yemanov – Running GBAK -C by a non-privileged user (i.e. neither SYSDBA nor database owner) causes an original database to be overwritten instead of the expected “database already exists” message.
This bug seems to be inherited from IB 6.0 and it exists in all FB versions. However, FB 2.0 is not affected due to different default restore rules.
From Dmitry Yemanov – Adriano dos Santos Fernandes has joined the Firebird code reviewing team (we can now call it a team, since there are now two people involved in this task – Claudio and Adriano). Adriano will be assisted by a grant from the Firebird Foundation.
New developer joined flamerobin team
Details are: Bart Bakker from Zaandam, Netherlands.
IronPython + Firebird .NET provider 2.0 example code
From Dmitry Yemanov:
It has been discovered recently (thanks to Eugene Kilin) that Win32 builds of Classic Server did not set up some socket options properly, including SO_KEEPALIVE. So if you have troubles with “zombie” processes not terminating after the keepalive internal, this is the reason. The patch has been committed into HEAD today and it will be available in the v2.0 RC2 release.
Also, Windows builds (both SuperServer and Classic) are now in sync with the POSIX ones and also have the Nagle algorithm disabled by default. If you want to change this behaviour, set the config option TcpNoNagle to zero.
