Hi

> - generally, what means GDS shortcut?

GDS is "Groton Database Systems", the original name of interbase, long
before it belonged to Borland.
Read:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1095527729:305965&page=ibp_a
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> - am I able (as driver user) to init isc_db_handle_impl.version field in

any way so the methods above work correctly?

> where version seems to be null at object creation, so this causes an

exception.

At object creation seems to imply to me "before connecting to the database".
However, the DatabaseProductName canNOT be known before.
I *guess*, version is set after connecting.

> - or maybe it is a bug?

I don't really know.

Regards,
Steffen


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