What will be fixed in Firebird v2.0 Release Candidate 1 - Tales from the Changelog

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        A few types of subqueries are wrongly treated as being variant,
        causing performance issues
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed Beta 2 bug (SF #$1433583)
        Unexpected error "key size exceeds implementation restriction" for UTF-8 charset
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Indices used in explicit plans inside PSQL could be dropped, thus causing restore issues
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        fb_lock_print fails with message:
        "the requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open".
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Information API enhancements
        1) isc_info_active_transactions_count returns number of active transactions (SF #1315814)
        2) isc_transaction_info returns transaction isolation level and options (SF #1089646)
        3) isc_info_creation_date returns creation date of the database
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.isc_info_xxx
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Transaction ID cannot silently (and dangerously) overflow anymore (the limit is still 231)
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Read committed transactions block garbage collection
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        ALL predicate may return wrong results
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Thread safety issues in datetime functions of the FBUDF library
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama 

    * Build improvement
        FBUDF library no longer depends on FBCLIENT
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Permissions are not checked for view columns
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Server crashes if positioned UPDATE/DELETE is executed via DSQL
        and it references a cursor which is already released.
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Fixed SF bug #1404157
        DFW is not ready for RECREATE TABLE/VIEW
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Restored the code which replaces ROLLBACK with COMMIT if a transaction
        has not modified any data
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        ROW_COUNT is cleared after SUSPEND execution
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed SF bug #1408079
        Parser does not validate string literal markers
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama 

    * Fixed Beta 2 bug
        Incorrect ambiguity error raised for quantified predicates (ANY/ALL/IN)
      Contributor(s):
        Arno Brinkman 

    * Fixed unregistered bugs
        1) Wrong statistics if relation\index data is longer than 232 bytes length
        2) Wrong statistics: average index key length rounded to integer value
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Attachments with isc_dpb_no_garbage_collect option force the sweep
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

    * Fixed Beta 2 bug
        Wrong string length calculated for UNICODE_FSS system domains
        in users views and tables
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes 
        Dmitry Yemanov 

    * Fixed Beta 2 bug
        Incorrectly stored source for CURRENT_TIME\CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
        in procedure parameters default values
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun 

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