> -----Original Message-----
> TR wrote:
> >
> > Does someone knows what the problems with 64 Bit firebird 1.4 are?
> > (why recalled)
>
> Roughly, it was this. There's a rule that Firebird 1.0x will use
> exactly the same on disk structure (ODS) as InterBase 6.0, ignoring
> minor extensions to the system tables and indexes there-upon. The 64
> bit version accidentally introduced alignment differences that made the
> ODS incompatible.
>
> Compiling Firebird 1.5x - in any variant - on a 64 bit processor for use
> an InterBase database is going to be a very twitchy process.

But it wouldn't be a problem for new DBs, or DBs that are backed-up then
restored using the new 64-bit version, or would it still be an issue?

George

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