45 KiB
v4.0 Beta 2 (unreleased)
New features
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CORE-6287: SET BIND OF type1 TO type2
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.set_bind.md
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6285: SQL-level replication management
Reference(s): /doc/README.replication.md, /doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl.txt
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-6109: Changed FLOAT to a SQL standard compliant FLOAT datatype
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.floating_point_types.md
Contributor(s): Mark Rotteveel -
CORE-6018: Make it possible to start multiple transactions (possibly in different attachments) using the same initial transaction snapshot
Reference(s): /doc/README.transaction_at_snapshot.md
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-4933: Add better transaction control to ISQL
Reference(s): /doc/README.isql_enhancements.txt
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-3435: Lateral derived tables
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.derived_tables.txt
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov
Improvements
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CORE-6286: Make usage of TIMESTAMP/TIME WITH TIME ZONE convenient for users when appropriate ICU library is not installed on the client side
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.time_zone.md, /doc/sql.extensions/README.set_bind.md
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6279: Put options in user management statements in any order
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.user_management
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6278: Efficient table scans for DBKEY-based range conditions
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-6274: Increase parse speed of long queries
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6268: Add methods to set various names (field, relation, etc.) in metadata builder
Reference(s): /doc/Using_OO_API.html
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6239: Procedures and EXECUTE BLOCK without RETURNS should not be allowed to use SUSPEND
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6237: Performance problem when using SRP plugin
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6220: Enable delivery of known to the client key to any connection to the server
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6219: Add support for special (inf/nan) values when sorting DECFLOAT values
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6095: Extend trace record for COMMIT/ROLLBACK RETAINING to allow chaining of transaction ids
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6069: Show OS-specific error when entrypont is not found in dynamic library
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6058: Change behavior of skipped and repeated wall times within time zones
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6049: Builtin functions converting binary string to hexadecimal representation and vice versa
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6048: Provide ability to see current state of DB encryption
Reference(s): /doc/README.monitoring_tables
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6032: Add DPB properties for time zone bind and decfloat configuration
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6017: Add transaction info fb_info_tra_snapshot_number
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5658: Execute statement with excess parameters
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.execute_statement2
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5538: Add ability to backup/restore only those (several) tables which are enumerated as command line argument (pattern)
Reference(s): /doc/README.gbak
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-4726: Implement REcreate user <user_name> password <user_pwd>
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-4579: Distribute separate header files instead merged one
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-3983: Ability to authenticate user in "EXECUTE STATEMENT ON EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE" by hash of the current password
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff
Bugfixes
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CORE-6290: Hex number used at the end of statement may read invalid memory and produce wrong values or exceptions
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6283: isNullable() in message metadata, returned by metadata builder, does not match with datatype set by setType() in metadata builder
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6282: Change type of MON$ATTACHMENTS.MON$IDLE_TIMER and MON$STATEMENTS.MON$STATEMENT_TIMER to TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6281: Invalid timestamp errors with RDB$TIME_ZONE_UTIL.TRANSITIONS
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6280: MERGE statement loses parameters in WHEN (NOT) MATCHED clause that will never be matched, crashes server in some situations
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6272: Failed attach to a database is not traced
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6266: Deleting records from MON$ATTACHMENTS using ORDER BY clause doesn't close the corresponding attachments
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-6265: Mapping rules are destroyed by backup / restore
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6264: GBAK with PIPE to stdout: invalid content if user '-se :service_mgr' command switch
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6262: SHOW DOMAIN/TABLE does not display character set of system objects
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6260: Warnings are not always displayed in ISQL
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6254: Server crashes when using SET TRANSACTION and ON TRANSACTION START trigger uses EXECUTE STATEMENT against current transaction
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6253: Crash caused by the locked fb_lock file
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6252: UNIQUE CONSTRAINT violation
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6251: Crash when built-in function LEFT or RIGHT is missing its 2nd argument
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6250: Signature mismatch when creating package body on identical packaged procedure header
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6248: A number of errors when database name is longer than 255 symbols
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6243: Regression: v4 Beta 1 rejects POSITION element of v2.5 defined SQL2003 CREATE TRIGGER syntax
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6241: Values greater than number of days between 01.01.0001 and 31.12.9999 (=3652058) can be added or subtracted from DATE
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6238: DECFLOAT: subtraction Num1 - Num2 leads to "Decimal float overflow" if Num2 is specified in scientific notation and less than max double (1.7976931348623157e308)
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6236: RDB$TIME_ZONE_UTIL package has wrong privilege for PUBLIC
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-6233: Wrong dependencies of stored function on view after backup/restore
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6231: Server crashes on shutdown of XNET connection to a local database when events have been registered
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6230: Unable to connect with database if security.db reference is removed from databases.conf file
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6227: isc_info_svc_user_dbpath always returns alias of main security database
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6224: Server crash: re-destruction of the rem_port object
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Dmitry Kovalenko, Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6221: Incorrect (throw-based) allocFunc for zlib1: memory leak is possible
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6218: COUNT(DISTINCT <DECFLOAT_FIELD>) leads FB to crash when there are duplicate values of this field
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6217: [inet.cpp] Dangerous work with pointer: delete ptr; ptr=new ;
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Dmitry Kovalenko, Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6214: Update outdated tzdata version
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6212: Authentication plugin on server may get garbage data from client instead empty packet
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6211: Command "ISQL -X" can not extract ROLE name when use multi-byte charset for connection
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6208: Grant lost in security.db after backup/restore cycle
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6207: Modifications needed to complile Firebird.pas under FPC
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6206: VARCHAR of insufficient length used for set bind of decfloat to varchar
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6205: Generate proper error for UNION DISTINCT with more than 255 columns
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6186: Original content of column which is involved into ENCRYPT() is displayed as distorted view after this call
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6181: Operations when using "SET DECFLOAT BIND BIGINT,n" with result of 11+ digits, fail with "Decimal float invalid operation"
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6174: ibase.h is missing from nightly builds
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6170: Cannot install on CentOS 8 because version of LibTomMath and LibNCurses library
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6166: Problems with long object names (> 255 bytes)
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6160: SUBSTRING of non-text/-blob is described to return NONE character set in DSQL
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6159: SUBSTRING SIMILAR is described with wrong data type in DSQL
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6130: Creating backup to stdout using service manager is broken
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6116: Metadata script extracted using ISQL of a database restored from a v2.5.9 backup is invalid when table has COMPUTED BY fields
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6110: 64-bit transaction IDs are not stored properly in status vector
Contributor(s): Ilya Eremin -
CORE-6080: Attempt to drop existing user randomly fails with "336723990 : record not found for user"
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-6071: Restore of encrypted backup of database with SQL dialect 1 fails
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6061: Building with --with-builtin-tommath doesn't work
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-6056: Overflow warnings when building some collations
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6046: Incorrect time zone parsing reads garbage in memory
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6044: ISQL issues with increased identifier length
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6034: The original time zone should be set to the current time zone at routine invocation
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6033: SUBSTRING(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) does not work
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-6019: Wire compression does not work without MSVC 2010 runtime installation
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5976: GBAK multi-database file restore uses wrong minimum number of pages for first database file
Contributor(s): Mark Rotteveel -
CORE-5972: External engine trigger crashing server if table have computed field
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5957: Bug in SIMILAR TO when adding numeric quantifier as bound for repetetion of expression leads to empty resultset
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5931: SIMILAR TO does not return result when invalid pattern is used
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5892: SQL SECURITY DEFINER context is not properly evaluated for monitoring tables
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-5697: Conversion from numeric literals to DECFLOAT adds precision that is not originally present
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5696: Conversion from zero numeric literals to DECFLOAT results in incorrect value
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5691: File description on Firebird executables should be specific
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5664: SIMILAR TO is substantially (500-700x) slower than LIKE on trivial pattern matches with VARCHAR data
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5445: Cannot install on Debian Stretch/Testing because version of LibTomMath library
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5364: gfix -online normal (executed in session #1) does not produce error when there is a SYSDBA-owned session #2
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-4893: SIMILAR-TO leads FB to crash when matching blob with size > 2Gb to a string literal
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-4874: Infinite "SIMILAR TO" matching
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-4739: Accent insensitive comparison: diacritical letters with DIAGONAL crossing stroke pass only test on EQUALITY to their non-accented forms
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-3858: Very poor performance of SIMILAR TO on some arguments
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-3380: Disable reading from the newly created BLOB
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-2251: GBAK doesn't return error code
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.6
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff
v4.0 Beta 1 (20-Feb-2019)
New features
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CORE-5990: Pool of external connections
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.external_connections_pool
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5970: Built-in cryptographic functions
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5953: Statement level read consistency in read-committed transactions
Reference(s): /doc/README.read_consistency.md
Contributor(s): Nickolay Samofatov, Roman Simakov, Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5951: Add support of batch insert and update operations
Reference(s): /doc/Using_OO_API.html
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5808: Support backup of encrypted databases
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5768: Implement FILTER-clause for aggregate functions
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5620: Add builtin functions FIRST_DAY and LAST_DAY
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5536: Connection compressed/encrypted status in MON$ATTACHMENTS table
Reference(s): /doc/README.monitoring_tables
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-2022: Built-in logical replication
Reference(s): /doc/README.replication.md
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-909: Ability to retrieve current UTC/GMT timestamp
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.time_zone.md
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-694: Support for time zones
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.time_zone.md
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Improvements
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CORE-5973: Handling FP overflow in DOUBLE PRECISION value when converting from DECFLOAT
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5954: Garbage collection in intermediate record versions
Reference(s): /doc/README.read_consistency.md
Contributor(s): Nickolay Samofatov, Roman Simakov, Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5952: Enhance restore performance of GBAK using batch API
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5948: Make WIN_SSPI plugin produce keys for wirecrypt plugin
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5928: Make it possible for AuthClient plugin to access authentication block from DPB
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5921: Provide information about Global Commit Number, Commit Number of currently used database snapshot (if any) and Commit Numbers assigned to the committed transactions
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5887: Allow the use of management statements in PSQL blocks
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5883: Services version 1 cleanup
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5874: Provide name of read-only column incorrectly referenced in UPDATE ... SET xxx
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5779: Add support for riscv64
Contributor(s): Richard Jones -
CORE-5770: User who is allowed to manage other users must have this ability WITHOUT need to grant him RDB$ADMIN role
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5741: Replace word "fixing" with "adjusting" in GBAK output
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5718: Make TempCacheLimit setting database-wise
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5705: Store precision of DECFLOAT in RDB$FIELDS
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5647: Increase number of formats/versions of views from 255 to 32K
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5606: Add expression index name to exception message if computation failed
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-4529: Allow to use index when GROUP BY on field which has DESCENDING index
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-4409: Enhancement in precision of calculations with NUMERIC/DECIMAL
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-3808: Provide ability to return all columns using RETURNING clause
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.returning
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Bugfixes
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CORE-5995: Creator user name is empty in user trace sessions
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5993: When creation of audit log file fails, there is no error message in firebird.log
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5991: Trace could not work correctly with quoted file names in trace configurations
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5989: iconv / libiconv 1.15 vs libc / libiconv_open | common/isc_file.cpp
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5986: Incorrect evaluation of NULL IS [NOT] {FALSE | TRUE}
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5985: Regression: ROLE does not passed in ES/EDS (specifying it in the statement is ignored)
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5982: Error "read permission for BLOB field", when it's an input/output procedure's parameter
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitriy Starodubov -
CORE-5980: Firebird crashes due to concurrent operations with expression indices
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5974: Wrong result of select distinct with decfload/timezone/collated column
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5972: External engine trigger crashing server if table have computed field
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5965: FB3 optimizer chooses less efficient plan than FB2.5 optimizer
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5959: Firebird returns wrong time after changes of time zone
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5955: Unable to init binreloc with ld >= 2.31
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-5950: Deadlock when attaching to bugchecked database
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5943: Server crashes preparing a query with both DISTINCT/ORDER BY and non-field expression in the select list
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5934: gpre_boot fails to link using cmake, undefined reference 'dladdr' and 'dlerror'
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5930: Bugcheck "incorrect snapshot deallocation - too few slots"
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5927: With some non-standard authentication plugins providing correct crypt key wire anyway remains not encrypted
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5926: Attempt to create mapping with non-ASCII user name which is encoded in SINGLE-BYTE codepage (WIN1251) leads to 'Malformed string' error
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5918: Memory pool statistics is not accurate
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5907: Regression: can not launch trace if its 'database' section contains regexp pattern with curvy brackets to enclose quantifier
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5896: NOT NULL constraint is not synchronized after rename column
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5871: Incorrect caching of the subquery result (procedure call) in independent queries
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5862: Varchar computed column without explicit type does not populate RDB$CHARACTER_LENGTH
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5861: GRANT OPTION is not checked for new object
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-5855: Firebird 4.0 cannot backup DB with generators which contains space in the names
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5800: After backup/restore the indexes by expression on computed field are not working properly
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5795: ORDER BY clause on compound index may disable usage of other indices
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5750: Date-time parsing is very weak
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5728: Field subtype of DEC_FIXED columns not returned by isc_info_sql_sub_type
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5726: Unclear error message when inserting value exceeding max of DEC_FIXED decimal
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5717: Reject non-constant date/time/timestamp literals
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5710: Datatype declaration DECFLOAT without precision should use a default precision
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5700: DECFLOAT underflow should yield zero instead of an error
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5699: DECFLOAT should not throw exceptions when +/-NaN, +/-sNaN and +/-Infinity is used in comparisons
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5657: Various UDF-related security vulnerabilities
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5646: Parse error when compiling a statement causes memory leak until attachment is disconnected
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5639: Mapping rule using WIN_SSPI plugin: windows user group conversion to firebird role does not work
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5637: string right truncation on restore of security db
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5612: Gradual slowdown of view operations (create, recreate or drop)
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5611: Higher memory consumption for prepared statements
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5593: System function RDB$ROLE_IN_USE cannot take long role names
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5518: Firebird UDF string2blob() may allow remote code execution
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5480: SUBSTRING startposition smaller than 1 should be allowed
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5395: Invalid data type for negation (minus operator)
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5118: Indices on computed fields are broken after restore (all keys are NULL)
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5070: Compound index cannot be used for filtering in some ORDER/GROUP BY queries
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-1592: Altering procedure parameters can lead to unrestorable database
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
v4.0 Alpha 1 (23-Aug-2017)
New features
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CORE-5568: SQL SECURITY feature
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.sql_security.txt
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-5525: Create high-precision floating point datatype named DECFLOAT
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extensions/README.data_types
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5488: Timeouts for running SQL statements and idle connections
Reference(s): /doc/README.session_idle_timeouts, /doc/README.statement_timeouts
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5463: Support DEFAULT context value in INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE and UPDATE OR INSERT statements
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5449: Support GENERATED ALWAYS identity columns and OVERRIDE clause
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5346: Named windows
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.md
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5343: Allow particular DBA privileges to be transferred to regular users
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt, doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-3647: Frames for window functions
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.md
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-2762: New built-in function to check whether some role is implicitly active
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.cumulative_roles.txt
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-1815: Ability to grant role to another role
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.cumulative_roles.txt
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-1688: More ANSI SQL:2003 window functions (PERCENK_RANK, CUME_DIST, NTILE)
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.md
Contributor(s): Hajime Nakagami, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-751: Implicitly active roles (and their permissions summarized)
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov
Improvements
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CORE-5431: Support for DROP IDENTITY clause
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5430: Support for INCREMENT option in identity columns
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5380: Allow subroutines to call others subroutines and themself recursively
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.subroutines.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5238: Replace xinetd support with the native listener Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff
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CORE-5119: Support autocommit mode in SET TRANSACTION statement
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5064: Add datatypes (VAR)BINARY(n) and BINARY VARYING(n) as aliases for (VAR)CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET OCTETS
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-4436: Support for different hash algorithms in HASH system function
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-2557: Grants on MON$ tables
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-2216: NBackup as online dump
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov, Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-2192: Extend maximum database page size to 32KB
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-2040: Allow exception name and possibly exception text to be determined within a "WHEN ANY" error handling block
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.context_variables
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-1132: Exception context in PSQL exception handlers
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.context_variables
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-749: Increase maximum length of object names to 63 characters
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Bugfixes
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CORE-5545: Wrong syntax with CREATE TRIGGER ... ON used with POSITION
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5454: INSERT into updatable view without explicit field list failed
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5408: Result of boolean expression can not be concatenated with string literal
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5404: Inconsistent column/line references when PSQL definitions return errors
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5237: Invalid handling of dot (.) and asterisk (*) in config file name and path for include clause
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-5223: Double dots are prohibited in file names if access is restricted to a list of directories
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-5141: Field definition allows several NOT NULL clauses
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-4985: Non-privileged user can implicitly count records in a restricted table
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-4701: Index and blob garbage collection don't take into accout data in undo log
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-4483: Changed data not visible in WHEN-section if exception occured inside SP that has been called from this code
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov -
CORE-4424: Rollback to wrong savepoint if several exception handlers on the same level are executed
Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov