Subject Re: [firebird-support] Service restore from stdin
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
04.10.2017 18:28, Pavel Cisar pcisar@... [firebird-support] wrote:
> Nope, without requesting isc_info_svc_line output you can't know when
> service actually finished, so you may close the service at will. If you
> close it *after* its finished then everything is ok, but if not, you
> will get broken database (unfinished restore). Note that after whole
> backup file is processed (and thus no more data are requested), then
> service recreates the index trees which may take a lot of time (depends
> on data size and number of indices) when you would get only text output.

Fine.

Another question: is there a way to abort restore process which would cause server to
drop half-restored database? For example, if I have a problem of reading backup file.
Or in this case I must connect to the database and drop it myself?

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WBR, SD.