Hi,

I am just wondering if we should switch to IB 6 (or Firebird??) before we
push out our next app.

I was wondering how stable IB 6 is at present... do people recommend using
it in its present state for production systems, or should I keep to IB 5.6.

To help me make up my mind I had a quick look at the registered bugs on the
Firebird site... one that scared me a little was bug Id 230, SF Id 113642,
Win 32 accepts ambiguous TCP/IP connect strings. Quoting from the summary
description it says that:
"Win 32 allows clients to connect with either servername:c:<localpathname>
or servername:c:\<localpathname>. If connected clients have connected with a
mixture of these string formats, the database is treated as if it were
multiple databases and corruptions occur."

My first thought to this was... WOW, surely this is a serious (high
priority) bug...
If just connecting with different strings can cause a database corruption
then surely this should be considered major?

Do other versions of IB have this bug... IB 5.6? Borland's IB 6 release?? If
so... I am off to check all our client's connection strings!!

Regards

Colin


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