>
> The bug had a healthy life for about 8 years, but died tonight. RIP. No
> more
> 1024 bytes absurd limitation for retrieving the list of users. Just pass
> a
> larger buffer from your client app to isc_database_info().
> :-)

Congratulations! I think this bug was not a tremendous one, but fine that
it's gone.
And great respect for your work!

One more reason to wait impatiently for Firebird 1 :-)

> The person writing the code assumed that 1024 would be big enough for any
> real usage... and there are several places in the engine that assume we
> are
> happy with fixed limits.

Indeed, when we dealt with our problems of handling more than 256
connections with IB<6 (that was when I stumbled over this bug) we could get
the impression, that more than 100 connections on one IB-server is rather
seldom even today ...

Georg