Hi, everybody !

I beg your pardon because I don't understand
where is the problem with Firebird 1.0.

Could you please send me a very simple example,
even privately

J.


--- "Helen Borrie (TeamIBO)" <helebor@...> a
écrit : > At 12:54 PM 15-03-02 +0000, Marco Menardi
wrote:

>
> > >
> > > I certainly don't have a problem with joins, I
> rarely use
> > > them that way.
> >
> >YES YES YES, I certainly have the problem with
> joins, I often used them
> >that way :)
>
> But now you have to do them correctly, right? Which
> ensures that your
> customers no longer get dubious output from your
> joined queries.
>
> > >
> > > The problem is simply that EVERY automatic ( I'm
> listening
> > > Tomas <g> ) INSERT is converted to an SQL format
> that is now
> > > rejected.
> >
> >Yes, fixed in 2 lines code in IBO. Since automatic
> joins are build "on the
> >fly", simple recompiling solves the problem.
>
> What is "simple recompiling" for thousands of sites
> which are using
> applications compiled with *any* version of IBO
> except the latest, fixed
> one? Are you saying that it is "simple" to
> recompile every executable out
> there that was built with IBO over the past five
> years, and to redeploy it
> to every machine on every site?
>
> The only apps the new fix will fix are those that we
> have in our IDEs right
> now. It won't fix the four years' worth of deployed
> apps unless we either
> supply our customers with new software, or tell them
> they can't use
> Firebird 1.0. THAT is the problem. It is a fix that
> breaks correct
> code. It is in no way similar to *your* problem, in
> which a correction to
> the Firebird code identified *your* SQL errors and
> also provided a
> safeguard against your repeating similar errors in
> future.
>
> >The join "problem" has to be manually fixed AND
> TESTED. I like this new
> >syntax for joins and I want it, but in a general
> case, talking about
> >"painless upgrade", this is what will prevent the
> database engine upgrade
> >for the "good old apps", I think.
>
> It is *not* a "new syntax for joins" at all: it is
> a correction to the
> engine which prevents you from using wrong (i.e.
> ambiguous) syntax.
>
> regards,
> Helen Borrie (TeamIBO Support)
>
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