Subject Re: [ib-support] Problem starting a database Firebird 1.5 RC3 build 3481
Author Svein Erling Tysvaer
Sounds like the problem that many people experienced with Windows XP, which
decided to make a copy of all files with the extention .gdb. Though if you
use .fdb as extention or another operating system, you should not
experience this.

Set

At 13:49 10.06.2003 +0000, you wrote:
>First off, Firebird 1.5 is great, much faster than
>Interbase/Firebird has ever been. Unfortunately, I am running into
>a problem. I have a 700 MB database that the first time I connect
>to it, Firebird takes about 2-3 minutes to start up. After that,
>everything is super fast. Is this normal behavior for 1.5?