Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird vs Interbase

[Ded <de...@hq...>]

Ste...@ho... wrote:
> I have been testing applications using Delphi 5/IBX and Firebird RC2 and
> have found only 2 minor issues.  They are:
> 
> 1.  The IBBackupService property for IngoreLimbo must be set to false.
> 2.  The SQL error code -204 which can be corrected by proper coding.
> 
> Are there any other known issues that we should be aware of?
> 

  Steve, what do you mean by point 2? I have 3 applications based on IBX
4.42 with total amount of units about 2000 and all 3 were tested with
many versions of Firebird and works now in real life on a rather large
and complex database over RC2. Since January 2001 this database was
served by FB 0-9.4p1. Just now I can't see any problems with general IBX
components (I don't use IBAdmin palette because I always work on classic
IB/FB). More, over FB RC2 I recommend to bring TIBSQL.ExecQuery part
which implement TIBStoredProc.ExecProc to normal state

    SQLExecProcedure: begin
      fetch_res := Call(isc_dsql_execute2(StatusVector,
                            TRHandle,
                            @FHandle,
                            Database.SQLDialect,
                            FSQLParams.AsXSQLDA,
                            FSQLRecord.AsXSQLDA), True);
     end;                                      // ^^^^ 

   Originally presented there repeated call in case of the error (which
always made more harm than benefit) is absolutly unneeded for Firebird
now, thanks Ann. Just to be shure you use proper Firebird gds32.dll, not
IB 6 or old FB one.
   So, I think most of existing now IBX applications are fully
compatible with Firebird, maybe some problems with IBAdmin palette (just
don't know) and with IB6.5 features like XML support.

Best regards, Alexander V.Nevsky.