Am I the only person who is getting irritated by the criticism that
Firebird is not very good as a single user built in database engine?

I came to Interbase because I wanted I good client/server setup and my
single user dbase (Codebase) based systems are STILL being installed and
used without any problem.

While I can see the advantage of only having to support one database
file format. Most of the people who have been asking for an embedded
version will never use that file other than in the single user application.

Do we need to spend time trying to full fill everybodies requirements
with an engine that is simply NOT a single user engine. The next
complaints will be that it could be speeded up if some of the facilities
only used by multi user systems are removed.

Is this something that needs outlining on the 'roadmap' and people
pointed somewhere else when their requirements simply do not need
anything more than a flat file engine :)

I find that where I use Firebird on a single machine, it's nice to be
able to log in and fix things remotely, so I personally will never be
looking for the knobbled version ;)

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Lester Caine
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