--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Niben M Singh <niben_s@...>
wrote:

>
> I stress tested my firebird database by running a query that
> returns about fair amount of data (like 200 rows) 20000 times in a

loop. I

> found that after running the query about half an hour the database hung
> and became inaccessible. The database would not accept any

connections. I had to restart the server in order to re-run

> my queries. I looked into the firebird.log file and saw error

message "Internal gds software consistency check (cannot find tip page
(165))".

>
> Upon googling the error message I came across this page
>           http://dn.codegear.com/article/30208
>
> Just as stated in the page the user I was using had read-only access

to the database.

No, the article states that it is a read-only database, not a user
connected with a read only transaction, a user with no insert update
or delete privileges, or a user connected with a read-write
transaction but executing read only dml.

A read-only database is a database designed to be stored but never
edited once distributed (eg CD ROM distribution), and this appears to
be the environment the article you found refers to.

That said, Firebird shares a history with Interbase, so it is
certainly not without possibility that the errors in IB may also be
found in Firebird.

Adam