remove some type casts.
Introduce new virtual table RDB$CONFIG.
Implement CORE-6332 : Get rid of FileSystemCacheThreshold parameter
new boolean setting UseFileSystemCache overrides legacy FileSystemCacheThreshold,
FileSystemCacheThreshold will be removed in the next major Firebird release.
Keep metadata name strings in hash table having just a pointer to a hash table member in all places where metadata name is needed in order to save RAM. Hash table of metadata names is almost lock-less: mutex is used only when new segment of memory is needed or hash table should be grown.
Co-authored-by: hvlad <hvlad@users.sourceforge.net>
* Int128 support - work in progress
* Work in progress
* Int128 datatype appears to be mostly OK except sort & index
* Fixed divide scaling, added sorting & network (xdr) support
* Binding control, aggregate nodes, cleanup and documentation
* Fixed VS2017 AppVeyor build
* Next attempt to fix vs2017 build
* Next attempt to fix vs2017 build
* Next attempt to fix vs2017 build
* Update MSVC build.
* Set VS architecture correctly
* Fixed a number of issues noticed by Mark
* Initial implementation of replication
* Postfixes for configuration and Windows builds
* Misc Windows adjustments
* Forgotten changes from prior commits
* Last round (fingers crossed) of fixing the Windows build
* Improve self-documentation
* Misc improvements
* Updates the docs
* More configuration
* Frontported some remaining pieces
* Installation post-fixes
* Special permission for replication
