Firebird Weekly News #30

This is the list of firebird related news from week 12 December 2009 - 19 December 2009

Firebird Interesting Source Patches and Commits in this week

The author of change 6896711 was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:20:36 +0000, The title was:Separating run state from compiled statements
The author of change ecd818d was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:13:47 +0000, The title was:READ BLOB command has one input parameter...
The author of change f19feea was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:50:34 +0000, The title was:Replaced linked list of dsql parameters by array
The author of change 16df636 was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:39:23 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change 160c4e8 was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:06:56 +0000, The title was:Detect charset not found
The author of change 20b13c8 was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:00:15 +0000, The title was:Changed parameters to unsigned; Misc
The author of change f354cc4 was hvlad Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:03:18 +0000, The title was:Fixed AV
The author of change 6d3e0bf was robocop Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:48:50 +0000, The title was:GDEF is dead. In practice, it was dead in 1994 since Borland didn't provide a binary for it in IB4.
The author of change 95b49ae was robocop Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:16:59 +0000, The title was:Trying to reflect better what nbackup options do.
The author of change 167bd2c was robocop Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:02:50 +0000, The title was:Correction (worked thanks to legacy-aware code).
The author of change 712dfc5 was robocop Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:11:19 +0000, The title was:Fixing the indentation of two gbak messages.
The author of change 227c3c1 was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:08:53 +0000, The title was:It's 2009 - thanks to Alex :)
The author of change 172e151 was asfernandes Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:32:00 +0000, The title was:Fixed unregistered bug: Query string crashes 2.5RC1
The author of change d79b8bd was alexpeshkoff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:33:57 +0000, The title was:Enhanced fbsvcmgr usage print - list all known switches if -? is specified
The author of change 1ee5258 was alexpeshkoff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:15:22 +0000, The title was:Frontported detection of missing/invalid parameter in fbsvcmgr
The author of change fdb4d45 was alexpeshkoff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:06:18 +0000, The title was:Frontported changes to make -Direct switch of nbackup accept on/off parameter
The author of change 391785f was alexpeshkoff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:42:14 +0000, The title was:Frontported - fixed delivery of status vector from service thread
The author of change 886ff5c was robocop Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:01:39 +0000, The title was:Move more hardcoded messages to the msg db.
The author of change 9ff1e01 was asfernandes Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:26:32 +0000, The title was:Fixed unregistered bug: ALTER VIEW drops permissions
The author of change 054b48a was robocop Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:46:45 +0000, The title was:Cleanup.
The author of change d660aaf was robocop Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:16:02 +0000, The title was:When the two loops were joined, the value for rdb$context_type was different and this part was ignored, therefore a bug was introduced where views based on packaged procedures can't find their base fields. Since adjusting the two conditions in the same loop was cumbersome and the condition I needed to add made the statement a mess, I preferred to have two loops again. Better a tad of redundancy but with readable and correct code.
The author of change af8ecdf was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:59:04 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change 5c04f81 was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:57:14 +0000, The title was:I insist again, we're in December (and counting from 1) :)
The author of change cd51caa was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:25:11 +0000, The title was:Cleanup
The author of change c0ffed1 was sboyd Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:55:07 +0000, The title was:Fixed a memory leak.
The author of change 9de609c was hvlad Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:29:29 +0000, The title was:Caller should know reason why LM denied its request
The author of change 2b89c7f was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:07:00 +0000, The title was:Work in progress on RDB$VIEW_RELATIONS
The author of change b58861f was robocop Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:34 +0000, The title was:Make more error messages non-hardcoded.
The author of change 7bfae98 was robocop Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:17 +0000, The title was:Correction.
The author of change b846dd5 was robocop Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:44:32 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 6e71c4a was hvlad Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:25:23 +0000, The title was:Misc : rename PageSpace::ppFirst to pipFirst
The author of change 961080e was hvlad Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:50:28 +0000, The title was:ODS change : implement dpg_secondary flag. Other : make table scan skip secondary data pages, propagate record type to the store_big_record to allow record head be stored at the primary record page.
The author of change 4f0235a was dimitr Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:04:52 +0000, The title was:Restored the validation that was formerly related to FUN_resolve() which has been cleaned up.
The author of change f629d50 was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:36:33 +0000, The title was:Cleanup
The author of change 48e8151 was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:43:37 +0000, The title was:Fix COMMENT ON ... IS NULL
The author of change 944da40 was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:38:55 +0000, The title was:Cleanup
The author of change 96878e7 was asfernandes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:07:23 +0000, The title was:Cleanup
The author of change 80c82da was asfernandes Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:51:50 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change d51b1d4 was dimitr Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:35:55 +0000, The title was:Cleanup.
The author of change 827f33e was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:28:47 +0000, The title was:Added switch to nbackup, controlling direct access to database file
The author of change 9323b20 was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:40:19 +0000, The title was:Some more changes suggested by Claudio
The author of change 5e4ddc4 was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:10:12 +0000, The title was:Make libib_util usable with old server versions
The author of change 7709283 was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:34:11 +0000, The title was:It was bad idea to try to make fbsvcmgr more intellectual than it should be - rolled back part of my changes
The author of change 8195398 was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:45:28 +0000, The title was:Fixed an issue with gsec compatibility with previous versions
The author of change e283ee8 was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:25:44 +0000, The title was:Fixed an issue with gsec compatibility with previous versions
The author of change b033ada was alexpeshkoff Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:19:46 +0000, The title was:Forgotten file?
The author of change a867e0f was robocop Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:58:08 +0000, The title was:Distinguish between table and view in verbose mode.
The author of change 724ec44 was robocop Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:34:24 +0000, The title was:I'll put this code to test when I find a suitable syntax to push comments.
The author of change 95684a7 was robocop Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:31:36 +0000, The title was:Warning.
The author of change 1c0ecf0 was robocop Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:12:56 +0000, The title was:Localization: one needed message and two messages to be used.
The author of change 6e7470e was robocop Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:06:48 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 7a3b154 was robocop Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:05:41 +0000, The title was:Correction.
The author of change 62693d0 was robocop Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:08:23 +0000, The title was:Make views know exactly what type of source their fields have: include a type of context and a package name in rdb$view_relations. Debugged with a small script. To be reviewed & completed by Adriano. Full rebuild, please.
The author of change f54b3c0 was alexpeshkoff Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:55:35 +0000, The title was:fixed gcc warnings
The author of change af6d72d was dimitr Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:25:42 +0000, The title was:Cleanup.
The author of change f425dbf was asfernandes Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:55:50 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change 94b32cf was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:43:47 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 9793d97 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:01:06 +0000, The title was:Simplification.
The author of change f147244 was asfernandes Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:16:50 +0000, The title was:Front-port fix for CORE-2804 - Problems with COMMENT ON and strings using introducer (charset)
The author of change 8b98745 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:20 +0000, The title was:Optimization: avoid reading the underlying streams in the case of "FIRST 0".
The author of change 57398e7 was alexpeshkoff Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:26:17 +0000, The title was:Fixed CORE-2807: Problem with tracing on linux
The author of change 18194bf was alexpeshkoff Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:55:58 +0000, The title was:Fixed bug in my last commit - init handle
The author of change fb7618d was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:56:27 +0000, The title was:Scrollable cursors: work continued.
The author of change 7cb5495 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:31:03 +0000, The title was:Fixed CORE-2806: Views based on procedures can't be created if the proc's output fields participate in an expression.
The author of change b95c315 was alexpeshkoff Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:14:35 +0000, The title was:Ugly fix to avoid detaching security database before attach is really complete. Will not be beeded after moving auth to remote level.
The author of change 2f612ba was alexpeshkoff Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:13:17 +0000, The title was:Better way to deal with exceptions in catch blocks
The author of change bf865c2 was alexpeshkoff Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:09:49 +0000, The title was:fixed posix build
The author of change ccf4fa4 was hvlad Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:41:47 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change de28d13 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:40:26 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change c426e02 was hvlad Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:38:40 +0000, The title was:Forgotten changes
The author of change e379938 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:33:13 +0000, The title was:Cleanup.
The author of change effba78 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:19:45 +0000, The title was:Cleanup.
The author of change 9242d76 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:19:10 +0000, The title was:Let's transfer procedure aliases to the engine similarly to how it is done for relations. This allows more precise plan reporting. I hate to waste the BLR space in such a vandal way, so I'm open to any better suggestions.
The author of change 2ed2d05 was hvlad Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:46:14 +0000, The title was:A couple of ODS changes : - abandon page checksums and use page number for validation - PIP have now pip_used field to track number of allocated pages - two more flag bits per data page is now reserved on pointer page. One is for the swept flag and second is still not used but makes calculations easy - misc changes Don't forget to rebuild your DBs !
The author of change 5672da5 was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:23:27 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 266054c was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:17:05 +0000, The title was:Rollback to the prior revision, as the latest commit crashes the engine.
The author of change 94fce8d was dimitr Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:27:05 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 9685cf6 was hvlad Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:16:29 +0000, The title was:Let use correct rsb type in PLAN output
The author of change 0a86270 was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:49:38 +0000, The title was:Cleanup.
The author of change d155809 was dimitr Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:08:02 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change e20d4cd was dimitr Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:50:27 +0000, The title was:Cleanup the unneeded routines.
The author of change 0286375 was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:07:05 +0000, The title was:Unused functions, unused parameters, unused vars.
The author of change 920a4ae was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:06:24 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change cf4d6b1 was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:56:15 +0000, The title was:Applying the vacuum cleaner to this header.
The author of change 0b70287 was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:55:32 +0000, The title was:It's easy to streamline the code when another person did the hard job before. :-)
The author of change 31d8102 was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:42:55 +0000, The title was:Correction (paying attention to warnings can help really).
The author of change 976a41d was robocop Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:41:49 +0000, The title was:Misc, style and unused vars.
The author of change 036290d was aafemt Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:43:02 +0000, The title was:Fix MinGW build
The author of change 0e42755 was dimitr Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:17:32 +0000, The title was:Set up the ANY/ALL boolean at the compile time instead of runtime.
The author of change 1bf3595 was dimitr Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:38:26 +0000, The title was:Fixed the binary plan output, thanks to Claudio.
The author of change 33e7d91 was asfernandes Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:02:01 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change 2e7b501 was asfernandes Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:56:11 +0000, The title was:Misc
The author of change 86b38be was asfernandes Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:36:54 +0000, The title was:Sort maps refactor
The author of change a59dcdf was asfernandes Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:00:41 +0000, The title was:Remove usage of plain array with count in [0] in the new classes
The author of change 8864b02 was dimitr Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:57:48 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 5da2e06 was hvlad Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:15:56 +0000, The title was:Fixed bug CORE-2797 : Problem with default value of SP parameter
The author of change dfd4296 was dimitr Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:54:33 +0000, The title was:Misc.
The author of change 37cbb0d was dimitr Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:44:28 +0000, The title was:Fixed a not-initialized pointer.
The author of change 304ca89 was dimitr Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:23:14 +0000, The title was:Please Claudio and make the flags unique across all RecordSource implementors.