Re: [Firebird-devel] Red Database 2.1 released - merge ideas

[Alex P. <pes...@ya...>]

On Saturday 19 July 2008 06:21, Nikolay Samofatov wrote:
> Full-Text Search
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  From Firebird project point of view, this is very experimental feature,
> which shows how complete working full-text-search can be implemented for
> Firebird.
> I ask project members to review it from the architectural standpoint. It
> is implemented as ESPs in Java. When the feature becomes architecturally
> stable, we may want to migrate it to Lucene C.

Can you provide a small example - what is needed to use FTS on (for example) 
column DOCCONTEXT of table DOCS?

> Security features
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> The feature set aims to ensure complete coverage of ISO 27000 standard
> requirements which can be implemented by the database engine.
> There are similar projects for PostgreSQL (see SE-PosgreSQL), MySQL and
> commercial DBMS, but we hope our approach is much more comprehensive.

I know that you have much enhanced authentication process. What protocol 
number do you use now? How is it related with FB (and IB) protocol numbers?