Hi Geoff,

That'd be great if you could send me update, I'll give it a go.

Cheers,

Ryan Thomas
TransActive Systems

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Worboys
> Sent: Friday, 29 July 2005 11:58 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] TIB_Metadata and Firebird Crash
>
> > I wrote a small tool to extract the metadata from a database and
> > noticed that it causes FirebirdServer to consistently terminate. I
> > tried this on a remote database to the same effect. This
> resulted in
> > us having to go into windows services and start the FirebirdServer
> > service again.
>
> I have found a similar problem, but it was not consistent.
>
> It appears that extracting BLR information from the system
> tables causes a problem in the server - I dont know why.
> This of course causes problem for my DBak (database backup)
> application. The problem seems to occur most often when used
> directly after dropping a database to be replaced by running
> the new metadata script (at least that seems to have been the
> case with DBak).
>
> Since TIB_Metadata does not, at the moment, actually use the
> BLR details that it extracts anyway - I have been able to
> work around the problem by stopping the component from
> reading the BLR blobs.
>
> I have sent Jason an update to TIB_Metadata which works
> around the problem this way (as part of some other stuff) but
> it has not yet been released AFAIK.
>
> If you have the full IBO source I can send you a update to
> the metadata unit to see if that solves your problem.
>
> --
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
>
>
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