Subject RE: [Firebird-general] Re: RDBMS feature timelines
Author Paul Beach
Jeez, how did this get mangled.
Hope this reads better.

> > When were triggers and stored procedures introduced in Interbase?
> > At the start or later?
>
> Triggers have been around since at least 3.0 (1990), i.e. the syntax to
> support them was available via gdef. Note these were non SQL triggers.
> InterBase had a form of SP's that could be used in QLI - OK
> albeit they weren't SP's as they are used now, but they had a similar
> function.

> In terms of were they in InterBase pre 1990 - Hmm dunno, I started
> using InterBase from 3.0 on :-) - I'll rely on Ann's memory for that.
>
> SQL triggers and SP's as they are now appreared in InterBase 4.0
> which should be around 1994.
>
> Regards
> Paul