At 04:53 AM 7/08/2008, you wrote:

>We are using a commercial product based on Firebird (currently 2.0.3)
>running on Windows XP. The application is a client-server
>configuration, with the application server program running as a
>program (not a service) on the same computer that firebird runs on. I
>cannot upgrade the version of firebird without losing my service
>contract on the software.
>
>At times something goes wrong, and the error message we get is not
>enough information for us to figure out what happened.

Do you ever inspect firebird.log (in the root directory of the server installation) under these circumstances?

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