#Lua Firebird Driver : fbclient 0.5.0 is released

Cosmin Apreutesei wrote to to Lua, firebird-tools, LuaRocks mailing lists :

Good news everyone,

Firebird’s Lua binding v0.5.0 is out!

Quick changelog:

  • improved automated testing suite:
  • now testing against all 2.0-2.5 firebird and fbembed releases to date on win32 and linux32 (linux64 coming with the next version of alien)
  • server binary bundles including start/stop scripts are now available for download making it trivial to setup a testing environment
  • improved st:run()/st:fetch() handling based on statement type
  • added support for SQL_NULL type (fb 2.5+)
  • added at:sqlcode(), at:sqlstate(), at:sqlerrors(), at:errors(),at:full_status()
  • added at:start_transaction()
  • added st:row()
  • bug fixing, refactoring and documentation updates

Rockspeck and zip package here: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/source/browse/

The next version will include a reflection module for metadata export
and schema comparison and synchronization between two databases.

Feedback welcome!
Enjoy!

PS: Could someone please update the rockspec in the LR repo, thanks!

Little helper library for writing #UDFs for Firebird in #Lua

Helper C library for writing UDFs for Firebird in Lua (as well as a small collection of useful UDFs). The Firebird UDF interface would hopefully be obsoleted in Firebird v3.0 and replaced with the new External Engine API. Until then, I hope you find this little library helpful. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.

http://code.google.com/p/firebird-lua-udfs/

For tips on how to write UDFs for Firebird yourself, read UdfWritingTips.

PS: If writing UDFs in Lua seems overkill, checkout the other UDF library written in freepascal.