> On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:43 AM, brian brian@... [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks folks, particularly to Ann - that bit about the way Firebird
> arranges the indexes itself was the clincher. It seems difficult to
> find a full manual for Firebird unless I speak Russian (I don't!), all
> there seems to be on the main site are updates - unless this is meant
> to mean the full manual updated to version 2.5, in which case it's a
> strange (and misleading) way to put it.

Long standing problem. When Inprise released the InterBase sources, they didn't release either the doc set sources or the test system. InterBase/Firebird was already a very large product and creating an open source doc set was daunting. Helen Borrie wrote a very complete book for APress, which has been updated and is available on-line, but not free. There's a project to translate the Russian book to English.

Good luck,

Ann