> >Martijn Tonies wrote:
> >> Well, you're looking at the problem the wrong way OR you didn't
> >> explain it in enough detail: WHY would you want to potentially
> >> transfer millions of rows in a resultset to your users?
>
> At 10:52 AM 9/10/2009, Geoff Worboys wrote:
>
> >It is one thing to explain to a person that Firebird has some
> >limitations... and to explore alternatives and to check whether
> >the situation can be avoided.
> >
> >It is quite another to continually bludgeon that person with
> >the "fact" that they must be wrong; that anything Firebird does
> >not do must not be worth doing. (Especially when it obviously
> >works, even in Firebird, in all but this odd situation.)
>
> I'm at a loss to see who actually did that, though. I've watched a
> number of helpful postings that could assist the OP to deal with the

.....
personally I think a lot of responses to questions on this list verge on the
"bludgeoning" attitude. I will even confess I fall for the temptation myself
on occasion. For which I apologise. I think it's a learned response.

IMO, Ann's response was NOT the focus of this comment.

But I think there are a (quite a) few of us who need to confer a little more
humility in their response. I think that FB will be served far better for
it.
Alan