I wrote:

>>
>>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.
>

George P Boutwell wrote:

> 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?
>

If memory serves - and mine often fails - the original question was
about using a 64-bit build against existing InterBase (not even
Firebird) databases. Since InterBase has gone its own way on its ODS,
that's a really hard problem, regardless of machine architecture. As
for building and using your own Firebird 1.5 64bit - go wild. If it
turns out there are problems, you'll have your data in an orphaned
database that nobody is going to really want to fix, but...

The Vulcan merge will produce a 64-bit engine that uses exactly the same
ODS as V2.

Regards,


Ann