> > Are there any pitfalls you should be aware of, if running more than one
> > FB 1.5 instance? (Windows, SuperServer)
> >
> > One thing I've seen is, that the registry entry
> > HKLM/FireBird Project/FireBird Server/Instance/DefaultInstance does not
> > seem to works as I would expect it to.
> >
> > If you start the first service from c:\FB1 then it will look into that
> > key to find the config path. ok.
> > Now if you start a second service from c:\FB2 it will look into the
> > *same* key, i.e. I did not find a way to tell the second
> > service/instance to look into something like HKLM/FireBird
> > Project/FireBird Server/Instance/DefaultInstance/MySecondInstance
> >
> > I removed the whole key, which means that the config path is just taken
> > one level above the exe-dir (which should be "bin").
> >
> > That seems to be working fine for me. Any advice or best practices?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Olaf Monien
>
> I can think of reasons why you would need to run IB6, FB1.02 and FB1.5
> together, but why 2 instances of the same version?

For testing?

I do have Firebird 1.0.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 RC4 within
one VMWare session installed, for instance.

@Olaf: Nice to have you here. We met us at the EKON8 in
Frankfurt this year. ;-)



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