Firebird 2.5

[Posted October 6, 2010 by corbet]

Version 2.5 of the Firebird relational database manager has been announced; see the release notes for details. "The primary goal for Firebird 2.5 was to establish the basics for a new threading architecture that is almost entirely common to the Superserver, Classic and Embedded models, taking in lower level synchronization and thread safety generally. Although SQL enhancements are not a primary objective of this release, for the first time, user management becomes accessible through SQL CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER statements and syntaxes for ALTER VIEW and CREATE OR ALTER VIEW are implemented. PSQL improvements include the introduction of autonomous transactions and ability to query another database via EXECUTE STATEMENT."

Firebird 2.5

Posted Oct 7, 2010 11:16 UTC (Thu) by djzort (guest, #57189) [Link] (1 responses)

firebird has a bright future ahead of it. if there is a need to illustrate the virtues of open sourcing proprietary software - firebird is a great example.

Firebird 2.5

Posted Oct 8, 2010 12:59 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

What we need is embedded PostgreSQL! FireBird is, shall I say, very idiosyncratic.