Hello, Roman,

>> Can anyone tell me if JDBC for Firebird will allow cursor positioning
>> yet?

> No, because server does not support this.

>> If not, how do you navigate the data?

> You don't. SQL is about manipulating a data sets. If we take the idea
> to the extreem, ORDER BY should be disabled, because it breaks the
> concept. :) SQL client executes a query and fetches the set of data
> back to the client. There you can do with data everything you like:
> scroll, sort, etc.

> This is not convenient for some applications and scrollable cursors
> would be of great help. Unfortunatelly server does not provide this
> functionality. Delphi users have libraries that emulate such
> functionality on the client side, but nobody implemented this for JDBC
> yet.

I can send you the Firebird 1.6 binary with SCROLLABLE_CURSORS enabled
for testing. I have no idea how it performs and if it is deadlock
prone, but you can test it. I may try to stabilize this feature if you
create JDBC scrollable cursors layer and add testcases for it.

> Best regards,
> Roman Rokytskyy

Nickolay Samofatov