Thank you for your answers.

If you refer to the Installation Guide, when it says "If your databases contain text BLOBs storing non-ASCII data ...", then in my case I think this is not necessary because in my databases every BLOB field stores only text. Is this right what I am saying?

Regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitry Sibiryakov" <sd@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Installation, versions and aliases.conf


>> Till now, I was using FireBird 2.0.1 and from now on I will use FireBird 2.1.2. So I will tell my customers to install the new version of my application choosing to install FireBird again.
>
> I hope that you also tell them to perform all necessary procedures to
> upgrade their databases from 2.0 to 2.1, including fixing metadata
> charset as described in migration guide...
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>> 1. Why differents versions of FireBird installs in diferent folders ..\FireBird_N_M?
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> Because they can co-exist and even work simultaneously.
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>> 2. Is it really necessary (or important) to deinstall the older version of FireBird? Why?
>
> No. As I already told few Firebird servers can be installed (and even
> work) at the same time.
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> SY, SD.
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