Subject Re: [firebird-support] Numeric overflow or string truncation
Author Daniel Rail
Hi,

At January 15, 2004, 05:35, Nando Dessena wrote:

A>> I think some attention can be given to error messages, that are more helpful,
A>> there are others like that, can't think of any others off hand right now.

> "column unknown" is one of my all time favourites. ;-) But I believe
> that one has improved in Firebird 1.0.
> The overflow & C. message is one of the worst in Firebird. AFAIU it's
> not very easy to give more context information there due to the
> organization of the code, otherwise someone would have fixed it
> already. Let's hope in Firebird 2.0.

It's in the talks for FB 2.0. And, I, too, am crossing my fingers
that it makes it in.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)