Dimitry Sibiryakov

It is not network UNC. It is a hack to make old API work with long paths.

In any case Firebird is using ANSI API for files. There is no way to use UTF-8 or expand length of path beyond 253 characters. For thousands of databases I...

> those using static type binding in their applications These will get values coerced to requested static types. The problem is Delphi that compare the types instead or requesting them....

We **had** some kind of ISC API->OO API envelope that allowed to use Firebird 2.5 embedded to be used as a provider for Firebird 3.0 server. Nobody was interested and...

Why to keep configuration level setting at all?

"Alter database enable publication" is already at DDL level or you have something else on mind?

It sounds right but the check and throwing of error (not warning) should be done at actual replication time as well not just on DDL enabling publication.

In stored BLR tables are referenced by name which makes renaming impossible in the most cases because of dependencies. Even if table naming is really a part of business logic...

> and exit with code 2 Is it indicated in status vector for services API as well or one have to parse text output?

Without it services seem to be pretty useless.