Hi,

>I can't speak for all Firebird users but personally I rarely have a
>reason to resort to coding on the API directly. There are so many
>good abstraction layers available there is really very little reason
>to get down and dirty with the API.

There are those of us who will always want to go for the official API
maintained and supported by the core development team. This is
particularly true for commercial applications.

>Really what you are talking about is building yet another another
>abstraction layer. If it were me, I would simply find one of the
>existing abstraction layers and use it rather than trying to
>re-engineer the existing API.

No. This is precisely NOT what I'm talking about. I'm suggesting the
addition of
some higher level convenience functions to the existing API. This would
be along the same lines as isc_expand_dpb(). If done properly, this would
have no impact on the existing interface nor compromise backward
compatibility.

Thanks,
-G











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