Hi, below is a message I posted through the news.atkin.com server, but
it (as other) didn't seem to get to the list. I'm now posting via web.
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Hi there,

I've been watching FB closely lately and I'm very inclined to upgrade
our customers using IB5.6 to FB1.0 as soon as it's ready. A few
questions:

1. Is there any time frame for the 1.0 release? Even if it is an
estimate, I'd like to hear it (example: it'll be released this year,
we don't know exactly when).
2. Our customers' main OS (for now) is windows, and I see a lot of
people talking about linux on these groups. Are the new
features/bugfixes available to all FB platforms?
3. I saw someone (Helen, i guess) asking for people to stress-test FB.
Is this test something i should download (I heard TCS or something),
or is it anything that stresses the server? I not sure how to ask
this. We run an app. monthly to join 20-30 DB in a single one for
research purposes. This single DB is ~500MB, but it is not the size
that matters and yes its complexity (medical stuff). I'm willing to
use FB on a test with this app and share my feelings about it, but I'm
not sure it would qualify as "stress-test". If it does, where do I get
the latest win32 builds? Is it the v0.9-4 on SourceForge?

Now this is a small wishlist I'd like you to comment. Will some of
these get to 1.0, 2.0, 3.0?

1 - Use the constraint name for contraint-related indices. Example:
Whenever I create a foreign key named FK_MYTABLE, the index should be
named FK_MYTABLE and not RDB$FOREIGNxxx.
I believe you know the reason for this: It would allow me to specify
the query plan independently of backup/restore, site, etc... And yes,
I've tried every possible hack to change the name. Had success on
some, but really didn't feel confident to put the changes on a
production environment.

Thank you for your input and the nice work you're doing,
regards,

dog