> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riho-Rene Ellermaa [mailto:r.ellermaa@...]
> Sent: Miércoles 24 de Enero de 2001 2:48
>
> I wonder... If it's the known bug, that has been around couple of
> years, how
> come that no IB/FB developers have encountered it? Don't they use IB?
> Maybe they use Oracle or MS Server :)

Very easy to explain: how many months ago did Firebird start? It has
already fix bugs and some of them are important. For example, a "little"
detail that makes IB6 to die with a memory error when you sort by an
expression. However, expertise is not gained in 24 hours. When was the last
time you found all bugs easy to trace, isolate and fix?
You could ask Borland why if they have even two experts, why they don't fix
the bug in 4 hours, for example, since they have seen the same bug report
for a long time.
Regarding your caustic question: I've used Sybase and Oracle and didn't
like them. I still use MsSql for projects and I'm not very disappointed with
it but don't like the procedure language... can you call "language" to such
mess?
Also, the workaround for IB is easy: put a suspend call and do a select
from your procedure if you need to return values. This way, you can prepare
once and call any times, without the overhead of unpreparing/preparing the
sentence each time you're going to execute it.
Don't force me to go into full vitriol mode or this list will be flooded
with corrosive postings.

C.