--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

>
> At 01:03 AM 25/01/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi Jason, reading beta15 changes (in releasenotes), I've found this
> >comment:
> >"I fixed/worked around a bug in Firebird that has to do with a bogus
> >error when extracting metadata from a database. Seems the internal
> >buffers get messed up after the first use of the SQLDA/SQLVAR buffers
> >of the query to retreive the constraints information from the system
> >tables. Simply unpreparing the cursor to get this data each time
> >avoids the error. It doesn't run as fast, but at least it runs."
> >
> >Did you reported it to the FB developer's mailing list? I think 2.01
> >and 2.1 is coming soon, so would be great be able to have it fixed.
>
> It's fixed in 2.0.1, see the topmost entry in WhatsNew in cvs.
>
> There is another improvement there for IBO - from the 2.0.1 release

notes:

> "
> (CORE-1012) Since Firebird 1.5.3, neither the relation name nor the
> alias was being returned for columns participating in a GROUP BY
> aggregation with joins. This problem was reported to affect
> particularly applications using IB Objects, which maintains internal
> structures to support "live" searching of tables underlying joined
> and aggregated sets. Fixed by A. dos Santos Fernandes.
> "
> Helen
>

Great, there is also bug CORE-1012, fixed for 2.1 and backported to
2.0.1 "IBO problems with FB >= 1.5.3 "Error with joins and
auto-generated search query, how can FB2.x help to solve?"
This could have been fixed for 2.0 as well, if only reported earlier.
That's why I asked, in the doubt ;)
Thanks Helen
Marco Menardi