If we move to Firebird 2 do we need to do a backup/restore cycle
to remove this limitation?

Regards,

Robert

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison"
<aharrison@...> wrote:

>
> robertgilland wrote:
> >
> > gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (pointer

page

> > vanished from mark_full (256))
>
> The problem your seeing is probably a limit in Firebird prior to V2
> that restricts the record space for a table to about 70 million KB,
> including record headers and back versions - large blobs don't

count.

> You've got somewhat more than 29 million records so you may have
> run into that problem. A backup/restore will fix the problem
> temporarily, but the better intermediate solution is to archive some
> of the records in another table. V2.0 corrects the problem totally.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ann
>