On 6 Mar 2002 at 2:40, Helen Borrie wrote:

> >Your making the assumption that an old IB installation is <= 5.6,
> >where it could be a 6.0 release, that uses Dialect 3.
>
> I'm trying to work out the logic that makes you assume that I am
> making that assumption...<g>
>
> Firebird can open an IB 6 database but it can *also* open a 5.x
> database, which it sees as a Dialect 1 database. So it throws a
> warning on a Dialect 1 database - hence my "In Dialect 1 (incl. IB
> 5.6) it will throw a warning, but the DML will be allowed to proceed."
>

IB and FB work the same for dialect 1, I'll accept that, but as far as this bug is
concerned, if the old IB database, is Dialect 3, and it could be, then an IB database
that was sloppily written, will explode (just like a Ford Pinto that got rear-ended, by
anything bigger then a tri-cycle).

Paul


Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
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