Firebird related news
The report (with pictures) of the 9th edition of the Firebird Developers Day is now available (in English and Portuguese). Thanks for all attendees, speakers and sponsors! See you in next year, celebrating 10 years of the conference!
Short answer is FDB
The difference between FDB and kInterbasDB is explained here
It’s old and unmaintained , all effort is on FDB driver and it is backward compatible with kInterbasDB
Now between FDB and FirebirdSQL , from what i know pyFirebirdSQL is pure python so it can work without any other so/dll installed and it can be used for example in places where there is no Firebird client installed (think of android python script)
The article is in Spanish from the Django Firebird driver maintainer
The option in the config is removed
Prior to Firebird 2.5 the SET clause of the UPDATE statement assigned columns in the user-defined order with the NEW column values being immediately accessible to the subsequent assignments. This did not conform to the SQL standard. Starting with Firebird 2.5, only OLD column values are accessible to all the assignments of the SET clause.
Example of the old vs new behaviour:
UPDATE T SET A = B, B = A
old result: A gets equal to B, B doesn’t change
new result: A and B get their values exchanged
Change this configuration option to 1 (true) only if your SQL code relies on the legacy semantics of the SET clause. It’s provided as a temporary solution for backward compatibility issues and is removed in Firebird 3.0
Type: boolean
OldSetClauseSemantics = 0
Posted in FB-DEVEL:
FIrebird for Android
——————–Key: CORE-3885
URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3885
Project: Firebird Core
Issue Type: Task
Components: Build Issues / Porting
Affects Versions: 2.1.5
Environment: Android 4
Reporter: JLM
Priority: MinorHello,
I’m trying to build Firebird 2.1 for Android ARM.
For the moment, I am compiling, step by step, by correcting builds issues.
To compile, I use the custom NDK R7 by Crystax in order to use the standard libc instead of the Bionic libc.I will write my advance gradually.
Regards,
Loweno
Do you have interest? Vote for it in the tracker and show your support 😉
Accordingly to its release lifetime policy, Firebird Project notifies that the Firebird v2.0 series has reached its end of life and thus will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, Firebird 2.0.7, which has been announced this year, will be available from the “discontinued” section of the download area.
The Firebird roadmap is updated , we are waiting for Firebird 3.0.x Alpha 🙂
Highlights for this release:
Target for next release: Documentation
Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications and from now it supports Firebird for back-end
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