Subject Re: [firebird-support] Damaged table, how to repair it?
Author Ann W. Harrison
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> Ann W. Harrison escreveu:
>>> To be honest, I have no idea what produced this error. I was messing around writing custom UDFs for the database and deleting some expression indices that used existing udfs, but I'm not sure if that was the cause of the problem or something else.
>> Nothing you do should corrupt a table, so we need to know what the
>> original error was.
>>
> A UDF trashing the engine memory is a perfect valid reason for
> corrupting a database.
>

OK, I'll argue about "valid" but "plausible" is certainly fair. Yes,
UDF's can access engine memory and corrupt databases. However, I'd
still like to know what the original error was.


Best,

Ann