> Thomas Steinmaurer schrieb:
>
> > firebird.conf is a server-wide configuration file, whereas
> > page size and forced writes is defined per database.
>
> This is not a contradiction: I do intend to specify the default server
> wide in case an database is created without specifying page-size or
> forced-writes.
>
> Especially for forced-write it does make sense to leave the note "on
> this machine it is recommended". Currently the notice is there but
> with the addition "... since it does run an M$-Operation System".
>
> Is there an posibility to let "forced-writes" default to false on
> Windows-Servers?

Not that I know, but why do want to get into trouble?

Admittedly, I'm happy with the default forced writes = ON,
especially on Windows. ;-)

A database gets created with Firebird 1.5 with a page size
of 4K (if you don't specify another page size in the CREATE
DATABASE statement) and with forced writes = ON.


HTH,
Thomas Steinmaurer
LogManager Serie - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database and MS SQL Server
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