> What is the cost of maintaining dialect 1 connectivity? Isn't it more work
> to remove it than to leave it go for some time?
> I would like to think that
> 1. The client lib is finally changed over
> 2. Most (if not all) third party connection components have had a chance

to

> move over to the new 'gds' lib
> 3. FB is finally able to co-habit without problem on a host with Interbase
> already installed, and
> 4. Some time after 1-3 has taken place a reasonable transition period is
> provided
> before dialect 1 is yanked.
>
> Alan
>

i agree with you Alan ...

i see no reasons to have a much of lost time, to update a lot of sourcecode,
because
the "date" doens't longer exist .... in dialect 3
escpecially the type DATE is the hammer!
i have in every record the timestamp, and a lot of logical is based on that
type of field ..

How i shoud update to dialect 3 ???? without changing 1000lines of
sourcecode?
If someone knows a good way, i will be happy ..
if FB2 or another Firebird-version doesn't support the dialect 1, i cannot
go with it:(
i think its impossible, and a lot of other developers have the same problem
....

thanks
-gerhard