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From: "Aage Johansen" <aagjohan@...>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:02 PM
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Temp path truncated to 32 characters?

> Richard Wesley wrote:
> > On 24 Oct 2008, at 10:46, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
> >
> >> Do you have reproducible test case ?
> >
> >
> > It appears that setting FIREBIRD_TMP explicitly fixes the
> > problem.=20=20=20
> > But using TMP or TEMP seems to have problems. The offending path
> > in=20=20
> > the TMP/TEMP/TMPDIR/INTERBASE_TMP environment variables is:
> >
> > C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\temp
> >
> > We=92re seeing firebird trying to write sort files as:
> >
> > C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau\fb_sort_XXXXXX
> >
>
>
> Seems to truncate at first <space> in the path.
> If your "Tableau Server" where "Tableau_Server" it would probably work.
> Maybe using quotes ("...") will help?

Uh, second space. There is space in Program Files. However, it does break
on the 32nd character.

Woody (TMW)