>Alan,
>
> >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?

At 08:19 AM 12/18/2004, Fabricio Araujo wrote:

>With embedded, yes, IT IS THE TRUTH! If the server thrash the memory
>it could thrash inclusive the embedded server memory and this could
>lead to db corruption.

Just corrupting the server memory won't affect the database. You've
got to corrupt it enough to affect data - say scribbling on a page
after it's ready to write out but before it's written - but not so
much that the server notices problems.

>It's not guilt of Firebird, it's the consequence of the use of a dll.

But firebird was designed to run in that environment and has done so
since 1984. No doubt programmers have got worse in the interim.

Cheers,


ann