Re[2]: [Firebird-devel] FB 1.5.1

[Olivier M. <om...@ti...>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:39:38 -0400,
"Samofatov, Nickolay" <Nickolay@BroadViewSoftware.com> wrote:

SN> Hi, Jim!
SN> 
SN> > If for any reason someone 
SN> > links a program written to conform with the architecture with 
SN> > 1.5.1 you will overwrite user data.  The result on user code 
SN> > is completely unpredictable.
SN> 
SN> Could you please elaborate with code sample? How do you think it is
SN> going to happen?
SN> 
SN> Nickolay

Suppose, I am a 32 bits client on a 32 bits OS, linked to the client
library and I'm sometimes talking to a remote server which happens to be
64 bits based, sometimes talking a previous one FB 1.5 which is 32 bits.
I even have to run some ditributed transactions over both.

Shall I have to care or to know that in advance before writing and
compiling my application ? Will my above hypothetic application (which
worked perfectly before) miserably fails when connecting to a 64 bits
incarnation of Firebird (a thing I can't know in advance just by looking
at the server name) ?

If yes, Firebird turned crap and I have to keep my company and customers
away from it.

-- 
Olivier Mascia <om...@ti...>