On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:00, Fabiano Bonin wrote:

> > Because such change would require coordinated release of the database
> > engine and all drivers that we have (Jaybird, .Net provider, ODBC-JDBC)
> > and third-party providers (IBPP, PHP, FIBPlus, IBObjects) to make the
> > feature usable everywhere and not distract customers (what if FIBPlus
> > will support it, while IBObject won't?). In my opiniton we're simply not
> > yet ready for such thing. Too big change, I think.
>
> Let's suppose FB starts to use long names for tables.
> An existing application using old drivers/providers will have problems
> to connect to a database that *does not* have tables with long names?
> If not, i don't see problems to implement this.

I believe we will be able to keep old API as long as objects in a request fit
in old limits (no external data, no long names, etc.). An old applications
will be able to run without problems.