On 24 Oct 2008, at 12:43, Richard Wesley wrote:

> It appears that setting FIREBIRD_TMP explicitly fixes the problem.

Belay that - the problem still occurs (sorry, miscommunication with a
co-worker). FIREBIRD_TMP allows us to isolate this issue from the
rest of the system, but it still appears to have a 32 character limit.

> But using TMP or TEMP seems to have problems. The offending path in
> the TMP/TEMP/TMPDIR/INTERBASE_TMP environment variables is:
>
> C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\temp
>
> We’re seeing firebird trying to write sort files as:
>
> C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau\fb_sort_XXXXXX

Best regards,
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Richard Wesley
Senior Software Developer

Tableau Software
t: 206.633.3400 x505
f: 206.633.3004
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