Sean,

> To be clear, Firebird v1 will ensure that a database is only openned by
> one server instance, and will abort the file open if the file is already
> accessed -- thus it will 'reject' inconsistent connection strings.

if this is how it will work (which I like very much more that fiddling
with connect strings), then I think it won't reject anything: different
connection strings that map to the same physical file will be happily
allowed (I wonder how it will be done in Classic).
Is there anything I am missing here?
Ciao
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