--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Ann Harrison <aharrison@...> wrote:

>
> The "tip" page is the Transaction Inventory Page - the place where
> transaction state is maintained. There are several possible causes of
> "cannot find tip page". One is that there have been more than 2**32
> transactions since the database was created, but that should cause the
> backup to fail as well.

That is a scary situation. Does this mean that the database could run into this problem under normal operating conditions and would then be unrecoverable because backing up would be impossible?

How does one recover from this situation?

Regards
Peter