Firebird Weekly News #33

This is the list of firebird related news from week 2 January 2010 - 9 January 2010

Firebird Roadmap for 2009 and the reality : At the end of the year 2009 we see what Firebird development plans were and what is the reality.
Django meets Firebird: Nice blog post about firebird and django.
Philippe Makowski wrote a nice article comparing the performance of Firebird database on different linux file systems.



Firebird Interesting Source Patches and Commits in this week

asfernandes committed 9fa0ccd Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:16:43 +0000:Feature CORE-832 - Parameterized exceptions
asfernandes committed a60936e Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:38:20 +0000:Misc
hvlad committed d22e381 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:38:54 +0000:Cleanup : remove tree of dirty pages in favor of list based implementation.
dimitr committed a914924 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:40:39 +0000:Implement the lazy caching mode. Rows are stored in the buffer while fetching forward. The switch to the fully cached mode is performed upon the first positioned access.
dimitr committed d679186 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:16:21 +0000:Fixed the sorting.
robocop committed 248fadb Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:53:23 +0000:I want to be able to pass const input params.
dimitr committed 2551d2a Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:32:21 +0000:Added the missing public entrypoint.
asfernandes committed 2c0b883 Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:32:39 +0000:1) Refactor the EXCEPTION statement 2) Cleanup DSQL nod_abort
robocop committed 95cd4ec Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:10:25 +0000:Commenting unused sym_type values.
robocop committed a3811b5 Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:08:46 +0000:Probably this completes Dmitry Sibiryakov's fix.
robocop committed f793ca8 Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:07:55 +0000:Misc.
aafemt committed ecc92bc Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:53:24 +0000:Fix BOF on truncation of reference action
hvlad committed 1d49a82 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:05:16 +0000:Make RELEASE build compilable
dimitr committed 7312db1 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:57:29 +0000:Added the missing license.
dimitr committed 087da87 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:54:26 +0000:Simplified the code a bit more (removed the redundant processing).
robocop committed c8313be Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:09:38 +0000:Misc.
asfernandes committed 798cac7 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:43:44 +0000:Misc
asfernandes committed afba8cf Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:43:41 +0000:Misc
asfernandes committed e03111d Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:56:37 +0000:Support for new types and support for getters in ResultSet
asfernandes committed 59f89c7 Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:23:22 +0000:Always use the dialect 3 for system SQL queries
asfernandes committed ec5734b Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:21:13 +0000:The easy fix to the dialect problem
robocop committed dfb6d00 Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:43:40 +0000:Show me the backup level when restoring with verbose option.
robocop committed fca10b3 Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:46:37 +0000:Put more strings into the msg db.
dimitr committed 682f543 Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:33:21 +0000:Small refactoring (code simplification).
robocop committed b1e392d Sun, 3 Jan 2010 03:45:01 +0000:Finally use the same logic to detect ODS capabilities in backup and restore.
asfernandes committed 33256c1 Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:19:13 +0000:Some syntactic sugar
asfernandes committed bcd7ac0 Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:29:32 +0000:Convert an uncached GDML query to equivalent SQL with PreparedStatement
asfernandes committed aac237b Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:46:11 +0000:Tweaks to PreparedStatement::Builder and support for output parameters (without "demo" code yet)
asfernandes committed 96b1f3e Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:34:39 +0000:Fix segmentation fault running tcs SVC_API_SWEEP_DB
robocop committed 179e773 Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:38:40 +0000:Put more strings into the msg db.
robocop committed ed20886 Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:19:50 +0000:Advancing towards the same logic to detect ODS capabilities in backup and restore.
robocop committed 32d7bb5 Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:16:06 +0000:Misc.
robocop committed fed57ea Sat, 2 Jan 2010 02:22:25 +0000:Advancing towards the same logic to detect ODS capabilities in backup and restore.
robocop committed 844d20a Sat, 2 Jan 2010 02:02:12 +0000:Style.