At 12:24 PM 14/12/2004 +1100, you wrote:

>so are we going to sully the good reputation of Firebird by now having
>endless corruption reports? And are we all going to just tell the people who
>complain of these corruptions that it's all their fault for writing rotten
>application code?

Yup, that's the risk that was taken in releasing embedded. It comes with
High Alert warnings in the doc, but how do you force people to read
it? And, having read it, how do you force them to use it with the
appropriate caution? And, even if their databases survive development, how
do you force them to test it to death?

The other side of the coin is - should skilful programmers be denied the
embedded server just because we know that there are sloppy programmers who
are going to write application code that will break embedded databases? We
can't even say "Don't try this unless you know what you're doing with
shared IPC space." The real problem is those who believe they DO know what
they're doing, when the actuality demonstrates otherwise.

./hb