Re: [Firebird-devel] ERROR:Malformed string

[Alexander P. <pes...@ma...>]

On Monday 09 November 2009 18:47:50 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> Dmitry Yemanov escreveu:
> > Nikolay Samofatov wrote:
> >> Dmitry, I believe this topic merits RM attention. Something needs to be
> >> done to remedy the situation both for Firebird 2.1 (corruption by
> >> default) and Firebird 2.5 (error by default).
> >
> > I don't think that *any* default processing can be good enough. The
> > engine doesn't know for sure what charset was used to store data or
> > metadata. We can look at the database charset and even suppose that
> > attachment charsets were the same, but anyway it's just a guess with
> > accuracy less than 100%. I strongly believe that guessing is not what
> > the engine should do.
> >
> > The metadata upgrade scripts in v2.1 are documented, the same is true
> > for the new restore switches in v2.5. We already had quite a few support
> > questions about the <subject> error and asked them to pay more attention
> > to the release notes. Nobody was blaming the server for being broken.
>
> Totally agree.
>
> > That said, I believe it would be more user friendly to catch this error
> > in GBAK during restore and write out a more detailed message, e.g.:
> > "unsupported sequence of characters. please retry with a -fix_fss_*
> > switch".
>
> This is very good thing to have.

+1 on both points.