Hi,

> > > > InterBase 7 is ODS 11 and Firebird 2 will probably be ODS 12.
> >
> > Helen, we talked about this at Fulda...
> >
> > We don't want to be anywhere near the IB ODS numbers -- there can't
> > be 2 engines which have 2 different definitions of ODS 12 -- would
> > result in the equivalent to your "ambulance at bottom of cliff"
> > analogy for running with Forced Writes = OFF on Win32.
> >
> > > Actually, 200 might be a better choice.
> >
> > While I think 200 is a little over kill, anything above 50 is fine
> > by me -- that way we have more room before needing to change the ODS
> > to an int.
>
> Maybe 128 and up would be nice, making bit 7 the "Firebird flag". You
> could even start at 139 = "Firebird ODS 11".
>
> OK, I confess: I'm a sucker for bitflags and masks :-)

Actually, this - inside tools - make it pretty easy to check
for a Firebird database :-)


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com