Helen Borrie wrote:

>But...um...I understood your proposal was to provide some kind of info
>structure packaging up the ENGINE capabilities. AFAIK, what has "always
>been that way" was the server version string, which is contingent on a
>connection to a database.
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The isc_database_info call returns information about the database, the
engine, and all of the transmission layers (the version information
contains a list of version string, once for each transmission layer).
It say, in effect, here's a database handle and a list of information
that I want, go get it. But it is absolutely contingent on a connection
(handle) to something, but until you ask, you won't know what.

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Jim Starkey
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