Re: [Firebird-docs] Gfix manual added to repository

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Norman,

> Thanks again for your help on the limbo transactions. One question =
though,=20
> in your example you show a run of gstat with a databases name of=20
> localhost:filename - this appears to work in your example, but I =
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> gstat had to be run locally. When I try a 'remote' path like yours, I =
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> get file not found errors. I'm using v2.0 though - so it could be that.=
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No, you're right, gstat doesn't do remote databases. The "localhost:" was=
 there because during testing I copied the connect string from the gfix =
command issued earlier. However, the fact that this doesn't generate an =
error made me wonder if gstat would really connect to localhost. So I =
replaced "localhost:" with "sofa:" (the machine name) and it still =
worked. After that, I used various existing and non-existing host names =
and IP numbers and it kept working (provided the path was correct *on my =
local machine*).

As it turns out, you can (with 1.5) prepend almost any kind of nonsense =
followed by a ":" and gstat will simply strip it. Only if the connect =
string contains 3 or more colons will you get a syntax error (on Windows!=
 I presume it's 2 on Linux). This may be something to add to the gstat =
chapter, when the time comes.


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog