No, this is just a problem with InterBase 4 itself.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "ancpru" <prucha@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: [IBO] Re: IBO with IB 4.x in a DLL


> --- In IBObjects@y..., "Jason Wharton" <jwharton@i...> wrote:
> > I highly recommend you migrate your IB 4 database to Firebird. IB 4
> is
> > notorious for crashing when doing metadata updates while other
> users are
> > active in a database.
> >
>
> The problem is that this is not really easy. The customer has
> workstations with ib4.x on different places and there are no leased
> lines to these places. The transfer of program-updates is possible
> via modem, but they should be small.
>
> What I do not understand is that IB crashes with an exception. When
> the update runs the 2nd time there are no updates. All the program
> does is to query a few RDB$-tables to check the structure. The only
> update it always performs is a CREATE TRIGGER/ALTER TRIGGER,
> depending if it's here or not. But it does not crash always - just
> sometimes.
>
> Can it be a BDE-problem? Is there a chance that it runs better via
> IBO - and does IBO support IB4?