[Firebird-docs] Firebird 2.5 Release Notes

[Stefan H. <st...@de...>]

In the Firebird 2.5 Release Notes (RC-2, page 61) there is an example
for the new string literal syntax for hex (which is a great new
feature because it opens the door to including binary data within a
plain-text SQL script):

select x'deadbeef'
  from rdb$database;

The "deadbeef" thing is funny, but it took me a while to realize that
this was about hex. When you run this example, you get

  Þ­¾ï

which is hard to check for correctness.

May I suggest another example?

select x'4669726562697264'
  from rdb$database;

will deliver the well known word "Firebird". Maybe that can be added
to the deadbeef example as a second column?

select x'deadbeef', x'4669726562697264'
  from rdb$database;



Best Regards

Stefan