Hardy,
To get your ODS version onnect to your database using iSql and type the command:
show database;
HTH,
John

> -------Original Message-------
> From: Hardy Sherwood <HardyS@...>
> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] External Table Size
> Sent: 10 Jul '07 03:46
>
> Dimitry,
>
> I'm using FB server version WI-V2.0.0.12748.
>
> What is a Database ODS version? How do I determine what version I'm
> running?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hardy
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dmitry Yemanov
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:53 AM
> To: [LINK: mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com]
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> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] External Table Size
>
> Hardy Sherwood wrote:
>
> >
>
> > As I understand, the limit on external table size is 2gb.
>
> Correct.
>
> > Is there any plan to increase the limit?
>
> Yes. It just has quite low priority.
>
> > If so, I'd appreciate if you'd let me know
>
> > what's the time frame for doing so?
>
> It hasn't been scheduled for any release yet. The v2.1 release has some
>
> improvements in the external tables area, so perhaps it would be the
>
> best version to make the external I/O 64-bit aware, but it's already in
>
> the Beta stage, so I cannot give you any promises, sorry.
>
> > PS: I thought that I should let you know that the alignment rules for
> fields
>
> > in external tables have inconsistencies. For example, I observed a
> bigint
>
> > field being aligned to a 4 byte boundary that was not on an 8 byte
> boundary.
>
> What FB version and database ODS version do you work with? The BIGINT
>
> alignment boundary is 4 bytes for ODS <= 10 and 8 bytes for ODS >= 11.
>
> Dmitry
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