Firebird related news
Python Bug that can trigger some errors when upgrading from kinterbasdb 3.2 to kinterbasdb 3.3
if python/kinterbasdb users upgrade kinterbasdb they must be aware of this python bug, because all existing code must be inspected for “(retrieved Decimal value) compare (float)” statements, which before upgrade were Ok (retrieved float value) compare (float)) statements
An identity column is a column associated with an internal sequence generator and has it value automatically set when omitted in an INSERT statement.
Example:
create table objects (
id integer generated by default as identity primary key,
name varchar(15)
);insert into objects (name) values (‘Table’);
insert into objects (name) values (‘Book’);
insert into objects (id, name) values (10, ‘Computer’);select * from objects;
ID NAME
============ ===============
1 Table
2 Book
10 Computer
Due to an incompatibility between WordPress 2.9.x, I had to disable temporarily the RPX plugin, responsible for enabling the login of users at FirebirdNews using OpenID, Google, etc. accounts.
The bug was holding new posts to be added to the site. I will re-enable the plugin as soon this get fixed. If you need to login at the site, you will need to have a local account.
Nice blog post about firebird and django
I found this nice project Django-Firebird that will make Django able to use Firebird as the database backend. The process of switching from MySQL to Firebird is painless, but there are some adjustment needed.
Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
Firebird 2.5 rc1 package is now uploaded and accepted into debian experimental repository.
and here is howto test it
Update:package is reuploaded , some pdf documentation didn’t had the source in the tar, and for the moment the pdf blobs are removed
We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!
Thanks to the progressive death of the NAS server from which all our Internet facilities are served, we lost everything – Tracker, website, Wiki, Windows snapshots and news mirrors – piece-by-piece over the past days.
By gargantuan effort, Sean Leyne and his colleagues at Broadview have been reconstructing our infrastructure from scratch. The main website http://www.firebirdsql.org is up but some pieces, such as Windows snapshots, are still missing.  Windows snapshots should be available some time today.
The other servers are more challenging, requiring radical reconstruction using new versions of underlying software, and will take time.
For now, if you find broken links (other than those to our other servers) then please feel free to inform us via a message to this list.
More info as it comes to light.
Helen
Softpedia seems to be one of the most visited IT related sites (at least the forums) in my country according to traffic.ro stats so i have updated the firebird related pages.
We need honest reviews there and some votes
Here is the page for the mac ,here is for Linux and there is for Windows.
ps:Later i will add some screenshots to the pages and update the instalation guides.
Firebird 2.5 is updated on cnet’s download page.What we need there is more honest reviews and some votes from community.
