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FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.1-5 Build 12044) Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:30:01 +0100

1. ISQLParams.GetHasCaseSensitiveParams added. Returns true if param names are
   case sensitive

2. Single line SQL comments starting with '--' are now recognised by SQL Parser.

3. New API Calls:
        IColumnMetaData.GetStatement
        IColumnMetaData.GetTransaction
        ISQLData.GetStrLength
        IResults.GetStatement
        IAttachment.OpenBlob (using Blob metadata)
        IAttachment.OpenArray (using array metadata)

4. FBMessages: removal of unused messages

5. TFBArray.Create (2nd case): ensure that FFirebirdClientAPI is correctly set.

6. TIBSQLStatementType: SQLSavePoint added to end of enumeration.

FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.1-4 Build 11515)  Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:04:19 +0000

1. Fix a problem with the SQL parameter parser that failed to recognise parameters
   where the second character of the parameter name is a numeric.

2. New method for IAttachment: procedure getFBVersion(version: TStrings);
   This returns the isc_version connection information as one or more lines.
   This is the same information as returned by isql with the -z option.

3. If -dFIREBIRD3APIONLY is used as a compiler option then the legacy Firebird API
   is no longer compiled in. Likewise, if -dLEGACYFIREBIRDAPIONLY is used as a
   compiler option then the Firebird 3 API is no longer compiled in.

4. IColumnMetaData: new method.

   TIBDateTimeFormats = (dfTimestamp, {SQL TIMESTAMP}
                        dfDateTime,   {SQL DATETIME}
                        dfTime);

   function GetDateTimeStrLength(DateTimeFormat: TIBDateTimeFormats): integer;

   This returns the max. number of characters returned by the "AsString" method
   when the SQL type of the column is respectively TIMESTAMP, DATETIME or TIME.

5. Additional argument for IAttachment.PrepareWithNamedParameters -
     CaseSensitiveParams: boolean = false

   If this argument is set to true then SQL parameter names are assumed to be case
   sensitive and must be referenced (using ISQLParams.ByName) using the case
   sensitive name.

6. Bug fix: when setting a query parameter, it is now possible, when the parameter
   is of type VarChar or Char to set the parameter to a numeric value (e.g. using
   .AsCurrency) and then subsequently to update the value to a non-numeric string
   using .AsString.


FBINTF Change Log  version                  (1.1-3) Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:28:10 +0000

1. DARWIN only syntax error: fix missing semi-colon in TFBClientAPI.LoadIBLibrary

2. Restrict IsMultiThread check to Unix only for compatibility with
   https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30535

3. New SQL Tokeniser added to IBUtils. This is used to pre-process SQL with
   named parameters and is intended to avoid problems with (e.g.) Execute Block
   and processing internal parameters as statement parameters.

4. New interface IFirebirdLibrary provides access to the underlying firebird DLL
   or shared object. Available via a new member (GetFBLibrary) of IFirebirdAPI.

5. New function added to IB.pas

   function LoadFBLibrary(aLibPathName: string): IFirebirdLibrary

   This allows a Firebird Library to be loaded from an explicit path. use the
   IFirebirdLibrary.GetFirebirdAPI member function to get the Firebird API using
   the library. It is possible to load Firebird libraries from different locations
   simultaneously, each with a distinct IFirebirdAPI.

FBINTF Change Log  version               (1.1-2) Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:32 +0100

1. Firebird.pas: {$OBJECTCHECKS OFF} added to file to avoid runtime error when
   program compiled with -CR command line switch.

2. IServiceManager additions (informational):
    function getProtocol: TProtocol;
    function getPortNo: AnsiString;

3. IServiceManager improved error handling. Interfaces changed:
    function Start(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true): boolean;
    function Query(SQPB: ISQPB; Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
    function Query(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;

4. IAttachment addition (informational)
    function GetSecurityDatabase: AnsiString;

5. IStatement: performance counters now updated after each Fetch. GetPerfStatistics
   thus now returns accumulated stats for a select statement from opening a cursor
   up to the last fetch.

6. DARWIN: uloadlibrary.inc bug fix. Many thanks to Luigi Naimi for correcting
   the problem.

7. Type change: "TPerfCounters = array[TPerfStats] of Int64". Note "Int64"
   replaces deprecated "comp" type.

10. Testsuite Test10 updated to include thread synchronisation for event reporting.

11. URL Connection Strings: inet4 and inet6 now recognised.

12. IBUtils: Parse and Make Connect String now recognise URL style loopback syntax.

13. IAttachment.CharSetName2CharSetID is now performed case insensitive.


FBINTF Change Log  version (1.1-1) Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:51:16 +0000

1. IBUtils.QuoteIdentifierIfNeeded: Add check for space character.

2. IAttachment: add two new methods
     function HasDefaultCharSet: boolean;
     function GetDefaultCharSetID: integer;

   These return, respectively, true if a connection default character set was
   specified and the character set id of the connection default character set.
   The DefaultCharSetID is cached when the connection is opened and hence does not
   require a database lookup.

3. Avoid exception when a text blob is a stored procedure parameter.

4. Update test suite to include a test for a stored proc returning a text blob.

5. IAttachment: add
      function GetRemoteProtocol: AnsiString;
      function GetODSMajorVersion: integer;
      function GetODSMinorVersion: integer;
      function GetAuthenticationMethod: AnsiString;

   These results are cached when the connection is opened and hence do not
   require a database lookup.

6. IAttachment: add "function GetConnectString: AnsiString;" This returns the
   connect string used to create/connect to the database.

7. IAttachment: Create Database using SQL statement. The username and password
   are now extracted and used to populate a DPB made available via IAttachment.getDPB.
   It is now possible to use IAttachment disconnect/connect to reconnect to
   a database for which the initial connection was established by a create
   database sql statement. Available in FPC only.

8. Update Test 1 to test 5, 6 and 7 above.

9. IBUtils code tidy up.

10. Parameter Block interfaces "find" method. As documented, this should have
   returned a nil interface when the item could not be found. Instead, an empty
   interface item was returned. "Find" now works as documented and will return
   a nil interface if the item cannot be found.

11. DBInformation: support added for isc_info_active_tran_count and isc_info_creation_date.

12. DBInformation: New interfaces: IDIRB and IDIRBItem added to support DB Information
    requests with additional parameters. This is to enable support for fb_info_page_contents
    (return of page contents). Response to fb_info_page_contents returned as
    a string with code page CP_NONE.

13. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_pages_used and fb_info_pages_free added, plus
    test suite updated.

14. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_crypt_key (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as
    a string type, and fb_info_conn_flags (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as an integer type.

15. Service Manager: List of protocols supported expanded to include inet, wnet and xnet.
    An overloaded version of IIFirebirdAPI.GetServiceManager also allows a non
    default connection port to be specified.

FBINTF Change Log  version                             (1.1-0) Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:20:02 +0000

1. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Numeric types.
   Scale is no longer ignored.

2. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Date values
   not in locale format but which are recognised by Firebird. Date values that
   cannot be converted to a string using Pascal library are now passed through
   to Firebird as Text Strings.

3. Lookup character set name by codepage amended to ensure that CP_UTF8 returns
   UTF8 and not UNICODE_FSS.

4. Charset ID problem. When using Firebird 3, with no default database character set
   and a column has a non-default collation specified, an incorrect character set
   id was being reported that could result in a 'division by zero' error when
   used by IBX. This has now been fixed.

5. Move GetCharsetName, CharSetID2CodePage, CodePage2CharSetID, CharSetName2CharSetID,
   CharSetWidth from IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment. This is a better data model as
   the character sets supported can be updated on a per database basis. That is
   it is possible to add a (Firebird) user defined character set to a database.

6. Add RegisterCharSet to IAttachment. This is used to register a user defined character
   set supported by Firebird with the API.

7. Add missing isc_info_db_read_only to list of decoded Database Information items
   in FBOutputBlock.pas and update test suite to include this item.

8. FB30Client: avoid always using "StartMultiple" when only a single database attachment.

9. Loading Windows fbclient.dll: when using the FIREBIRD variable to locate the client
   library or finding it by disk location, the PATH environment variable is now also set to
   include the FIREBIRD directory. This is to ensure that the correct dlls in the
   firebird client library dependencies are loaded.

10. Testsuite: Ensure consistent UTF-8 output on Windows console.

11. Testsuite: Update Windows script to include FPC 3.0.4 in search path.

12. FB30Statement: Protect call to "Move" and avoid calling with a nil pointer

13. FB30Statement: A check has been added to ensure that all SQL Parameters
    have been given a value (including NULL). Previously, failing to set the
    value of an SQL Parameter could give rise to unpredictable results or
    an SQLDA error.

14. FB30Statement/FB25Statement: Set SQLParam "modified" when string value set.

15. FBAttachment: Avoid string reference count error when processing an Ansistring
    parameter in an array of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.

16. FBAttachment: Allow for WideString and UnicodeString parameters in an array
    of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.


FBINTF Change Log  version             (1.0-2) Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:43:56 +0000

1. Change syntax to Mode Delphi

2. Change all uses of string type to explicit AnsiString in order to ensure
   compatibility between Delphi and FPC. 

3. Various syntax changes to ensure Delphi and FPC compilation including GUIDs
   defined for each interface.

4. Generics syntax variations for Delphi added

5. PChar replaced with PByte expect where an actual string is being referenced,
   where PAnsiChar is used instead.

6. Review of type definitions in IBExternals to ensure Delphi compatibility

7. Testsuite updated for Delphi

FBINTF Change Log  version            (1.0-1) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:57 +0000

1. Limit maximum Blob segment read/write to MaxuShort. Avoids data loss with
   large blobs and the FB3 API.

2. Update Event Handling algorithm to avoid looping due to recreation of the
   event block.

3. Avoid invalid XSQLDA error when the only parameter is updated to null

4. Array Handling: fix problem with text arrays with character set none. When the
   DB connection has a default character set (e.g. UTF8), an error is raised by
   Firebird if the space allocated is not enough to allow for transliteration, even
   though it is not required for character set none.

5. IBUtils: List of reserved words brought up-to-date

6. Add ISQL style performance statistics collection to IStatement

7. Add IFirebirdAPI.CreateDatabase variant to allow execution of user provided
   CREATE DATABASE statement.

8. Update SQL Statement parsing to allow for Array Dimensions. That is so that the ':' in
   an array dimension is not mistaken for a named parameter prefix.

9. Trim function no longer applied to result of GetAsString for SQL_TEXT
   when Character set is octets. Avoids loss of non printable characters at start of string.

10. Add function GetPerfStatistics to IStatement. This returns ISQL like performance
    statistics for the last action. Requires use of procedure IStatement.EnableStatistics
    to enable stats gathering.

11. API Version information added as constants to IB.pas

12. BlobMetaData character set id should now be the same as that given by IColumnMetaData.GetCharSetID

13. Firebird Character set "NONE" now interpreted as codepage CP_ACP.

FBINTF Change Log  version                                      (1.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:47 +0000

1. Initial Release

Revision:	305
Committed:	Fri Jul 17 22:51:19 2020 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by tony
File size:	12789 byte(s)
Log Message:	Fixes Removed
#	User	Rev	Content
1	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-5 Build 12044) Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:30:01 +0100
2	tony	287
3	tony	305	1. ISQLParams.GetHasCaseSensitiveParams added. Returns true if param names are
4			case sensitive
5	tony	287
6	tony	305	2. Single line SQL comments starting with '--' are now recognised by SQL Parser.
7	tony	287
8	tony	305	3. New API Calls:
9			IColumnMetaData.GetStatement
10			IColumnMetaData.GetTransaction
11			ISQLData.GetStrLength
12			IResults.GetStatement
13			IAttachment.OpenBlob (using Blob metadata)
14			IAttachment.OpenArray (using array metadata)
15	tony	291
16	tony	305	4. FBMessages: removal of unused messages
17	tony	291
18	tony	305	5. TFBArray.Create (2nd case): ensure that FFirebirdClientAPI is correctly set.
19	tony	291
20	tony	305	6. TIBSQLStatementType: SQLSavePoint added to end of enumeration.
21	tony	291
22	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-4 Build 11515) Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:04:19 +0000
23	tony	291
24	tony	305	1. Fix a problem with the SQL parameter parser that failed to recognise parameters
25			where the second character of the parameter name is a numeric.
26	tony	266
27	tony	305	2. New method for IAttachment: procedure getFBVersion(version: TStrings);
28			This returns the isc_version connection information as one or more lines.
29			This is the same information as returned by isql with the -z option.
30	tony	272
31	tony	305	3. If -dFIREBIRD3APIONLY is used as a compiler option then the legacy Firebird API
32			is no longer compiled in. Likewise, if -dLEGACYFIREBIRDAPIONLY is used as a
33			compiler option then the Firebird 3 API is no longer compiled in.
34	tony	266
35	tony	305	4. IColumnMetaData: new method.
36	tony	266
37	tony	305	TIBDateTimeFormats = (dfTimestamp, {SQL TIMESTAMP}
38			dfDateTime, {SQL DATETIME}
39			dfTime);
40	tony	263
41	tony	305	function GetDateTimeStrLength(DateTimeFormat: TIBDateTimeFormats): integer;
42	tony	267
43	tony	305	This returns the max. number of characters returned by the "AsString" method
44			when the SQL type of the column is respectively TIMESTAMP, DATETIME or TIME.
45	tony	270
46	tony	305	5. Additional argument for IAttachment.PrepareWithNamedParameters -
47			CaseSensitiveParams: boolean = false
48	tony	270
49	tony	305	If this argument is set to true then SQL parameter names are assumed to be case
50			sensitive and must be referenced (using ISQLParams.ByName) using the case
51			sensitive name.
52	tony	270
53	tony	305	6. Bug fix: when setting a query parameter, it is now possible, when the parameter
54			is of type VarChar or Char to set the parameter to a numeric value (e.g. using
55			.AsCurrency) and then subsequently to update the value to a non-numeric string
56			using .AsString.
57	tony	270
58
59
60	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-3) Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:28:10 +0000
61	tony	270
62	tony	305	1. DARWIN only syntax error: fix missing semi-colon in TFBClientAPI.LoadIBLibrary
63	tony	270
64	tony	305	2. Restrict IsMultiThread check to Unix only for compatibility with
65			https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30535
66	tony	270
67	tony	305	3. New SQL Tokeniser added to IBUtils. This is used to pre-process SQL with
68			named parameters and is intended to avoid problems with (e.g.) Execute Block
69			and processing internal parameters as statement parameters.
70	tony	270
71	tony	305	4. New interface IFirebirdLibrary provides access to the underlying firebird DLL
72			or shared object. Available via a new member (GetFBLibrary) of IFirebirdAPI.
73	tony	270
74	tony	305	5. New function added to IB.pas
75	tony	270
76	tony	305	function LoadFBLibrary(aLibPathName: string): IFirebirdLibrary
77	tony	270
78	tony	305	This allows a Firebird Library to be loaded from an explicit path. use the
79			IFirebirdLibrary.GetFirebirdAPI member function to get the Firebird API using
80			the library. It is possible to load Firebird libraries from different locations
81			simultaneously, each with a distinct IFirebirdAPI.
82	tony	270
83	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-2) Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:32 +0100
84	tony	271
85	tony	305	1. Firebird.pas: {$OBJECTCHECKS OFF} added to file to avoid runtime error when
86			program compiled with -CR command line switch.
87	tony	272
88	tony	305	2. IServiceManager additions (informational):
89			function getProtocol: TProtocol;
90			function getPortNo: AnsiString;
91	tony	272
92	tony	305	3. IServiceManager improved error handling. Interfaces changed:
93			function Start(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true): boolean;
94			function Query(SQPB: ISQPB; Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
95			function Query(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
96	tony	272
97	tony	305	4. IAttachment addition (informational)
98			function GetSecurityDatabase: AnsiString;
99	tony	272
100	tony	305	5. IStatement: performance counters now updated after each Fetch. GetPerfStatistics
101			thus now returns accumulated stats for a select statement from opening a cursor
102			up to the last fetch.
103	tony	272
104	tony	305	6. DARWIN: uloadlibrary.inc bug fix. Many thanks to Luigi Naimi for correcting
105			the problem.
106	tony	272
107	tony	305	7. Type change: "TPerfCounters = array[TPerfStats] of Int64". Note "Int64"
108			replaces deprecated "comp" type.
109	tony	272
110	tony	305	10. Testsuite Test10 updated to include thread synchronisation for event reporting.
111	tony	272
112	tony	305	11. URL Connection Strings: inet4 and inet6 now recognised.
113	tony	272
114	tony	305	12. IBUtils: Parse and Make Connect String now recognise URL style loopback syntax.
115	tony	272
116	tony	305	13. IAttachment.CharSetName2CharSetID is now performed case insensitive.
117	tony	272
118	tony	267
119	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-1) Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:51:16 +0000
120	tony	263
121	tony	305	1. IBUtils.QuoteIdentifierIfNeeded: Add check for space character.
122	tony	263
123	tony	305	2. IAttachment: add two new methods
124			function HasDefaultCharSet: boolean;
125			function GetDefaultCharSetID: integer;
126	tony	263
127	tony	305	These return, respectively, true if a connection default character set was
128			specified and the character set id of the connection default character set.
129			The DefaultCharSetID is cached when the connection is opened and hence does not
130			require a database lookup.
131	tony	263
132	tony	305	3. Avoid exception when a text blob is a stored procedure parameter.
133	tony	263
134	tony	305	4. Update test suite to include a test for a stored proc returning a text blob.
135	tony	263
136	tony	305	5. IAttachment: add
137			function GetRemoteProtocol: AnsiString;
138			function GetODSMajorVersion: integer;
139			function GetODSMinorVersion: integer;
140			function GetAuthenticationMethod: AnsiString;
141	tony	263
142	tony	305	These results are cached when the connection is opened and hence do not
143			require a database lookup.
144	tony	263
145	tony	305	6. IAttachment: add "function GetConnectString: AnsiString;" This returns the
146			connect string used to create/connect to the database.
147	tony	263
148	tony	305	7. IAttachment: Create Database using SQL statement. The username and password
149			are now extracted and used to populate a DPB made available via IAttachment.getDPB.
150			It is now possible to use IAttachment disconnect/connect to reconnect to
151			a database for which the initial connection was established by a create
152			database sql statement. Available in FPC only.
153	tony	263
154	tony	305	8. Update Test 1 to test 5, 6 and 7 above.
155	tony	263
156	tony	305	9. IBUtils code tidy up.
157	tony	263
158	tony	305	10. Parameter Block interfaces "find" method. As documented, this should have
159			returned a nil interface when the item could not be found. Instead, an empty
160			interface item was returned. "Find" now works as documented and will return
161			a nil interface if the item cannot be found.
162	tony	241
163	tony	305	11. DBInformation: support added for isc_info_active_tran_count and isc_info_creation_date.
164	tony	241
165	tony	305	12. DBInformation: New interfaces: IDIRB and IDIRBItem added to support DB Information
166			requests with additional parameters. This is to enable support for fb_info_page_contents
167			(return of page contents). Response to fb_info_page_contents returned as
168			a string with code page CP_NONE.
169	tony	101
170	tony	305	13. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_pages_used and fb_info_pages_free added, plus
171			test suite updated.
172	tony	209
173	tony	305	14. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_crypt_key (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as
174			a string type, and fb_info_conn_flags (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as an integer type.
175	tony	209
176	tony	305	15. Service Manager: List of protocols supported expanded to include inet, wnet and xnet.
177			An overloaded version of IIFirebirdAPI.GetServiceManager also allows a non
178			default connection port to be specified.
179	tony	209
180	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-0) Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:20:02 +0000
181	tony	209
182	tony	305	1. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Numeric types.
183			Scale is no longer ignored.
184	tony	209
185	tony	305	2. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Date values
186			not in locale format but which are recognised by Firebird. Date values that
187			cannot be converted to a string using Pascal library are now passed through
188			to Firebird as Text Strings.
189	tony	209
190	tony	305	3. Lookup character set name by codepage amended to ensure that CP_UTF8 returns
191			UTF8 and not UNICODE_FSS.
192	tony	209
193	tony	305	4. Charset ID problem. When using Firebird 3, with no default database character set
194			and a column has a non-default collation specified, an incorrect character set
195			id was being reported that could result in a 'division by zero' error when
196			used by IBX. This has now been fixed.
197	tony	209
198	tony	305	5. Move GetCharsetName, CharSetID2CodePage, CodePage2CharSetID, CharSetName2CharSetID,
199			CharSetWidth from IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment. This is a better data model as
200			the character sets supported can be updated on a per database basis. That is
201			it is possible to add a (Firebird) user defined character set to a database.
202	tony	209
203	tony	305	6. Add RegisterCharSet to IAttachment. This is used to register a user defined character
204			set supported by Firebird with the API.
205	tony	209
206	tony	305	7. Add missing isc_info_db_read_only to list of decoded Database Information items
207			in FBOutputBlock.pas and update test suite to include this item.
208	tony	209
209	tony	305	8. FB30Client: avoid always using "StartMultiple" when only a single database attachment.
210	tony	209
211	tony	305	9. Loading Windows fbclient.dll: when using the FIREBIRD variable to locate the client
212			library or finding it by disk location, the PATH environment variable is now also set to
213			include the FIREBIRD directory. This is to ensure that the correct dlls in the
214			firebird client library dependencies are loaded.
215	tony	209
216	tony	305	10. Testsuite: Ensure consistent UTF-8 output on Windows console.
217	tony	209
218	tony	305	11. Testsuite: Update Windows script to include FPC 3.0.4 in search path.
219	tony	209
220	tony	305	12. FB30Statement: Protect call to "Move" and avoid calling with a nil pointer
221	tony	209
222	tony	305	13. FB30Statement: A check has been added to ensure that all SQL Parameters
223			have been given a value (including NULL). Previously, failing to set the
224			value of an SQL Parameter could give rise to unpredictable results or
225			an SQLDA error.
226	tony	209
227	tony	305	14. FB30Statement/FB25Statement: Set SQLParam "modified" when string value set.
228	tony	209
229	tony	305	15. FBAttachment: Avoid string reference count error when processing an Ansistring
230			parameter in an array of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
231	tony	209
232	tony	305	16. FBAttachment: Allow for WideString and UnicodeString parameters in an array
233			of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
234	tony	209
235
236	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-2) Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:43:56 +0000
237	tony	209
238	tony	305	1. Change syntax to Mode Delphi
239	tony	209
240	tony	305	2. Change all uses of string type to explicit AnsiString in order to ensure
241			compatibility between Delphi and FPC.
242	tony	209
243	tony	305	3. Various syntax changes to ensure Delphi and FPC compilation including GUIDs
244			defined for each interface.
245	tony	221
246	tony	305	4. Generics syntax variations for Delphi added
247	tony	221
248	tony	305	5. PChar replaced with PByte expect where an actual string is being referenced,
249			where PAnsiChar is used instead.
250	tony	221
251	tony	305	6. Review of type definitions in IBExternals to ensure Delphi compatibility
252	tony	225
253	tony	305	7. Testsuite updated for Delphi
254	tony	225
255	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-1) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:57 +0000
256	tony	225
257	tony	305	1. Limit maximum Blob segment read/write to MaxuShort. Avoids data loss with
258			large blobs and the FB3 API.
259	tony	225
260	tony	305	2. Update Event Handling algorithm to avoid looping due to recreation of the
261			event block.
262	tony	226
263	tony	305	3. Avoid invalid XSQLDA error when the only parameter is updated to null
264	tony	227
265	tony	305	4. Array Handling: fix problem with text arrays with character set none. When the
266			DB connection has a default character set (e.g. UTF8), an error is raised by
267			Firebird if the space allocated is not enough to allow for transliteration, even
268			though it is not required for character set none.
269	tony	229
270	tony	305	5. IBUtils: List of reserved words brought up-to-date
271	tony	229
272	tony	305	6. Add ISQL style performance statistics collection to IStatement
273	tony	229
274	tony	305	7. Add IFirebirdAPI.CreateDatabase variant to allow execution of user provided
275			CREATE DATABASE statement.
276	tony	229
277	tony	305	8. Update SQL Statement parsing to allow for Array Dimensions. That is so that the ':' in
278			an array dimension is not mistaken for a named parameter prefix.
279	tony	229
280	tony	305	9. Trim function no longer applied to result of GetAsString for SQL_TEXT
281			when Character set is octets. Avoids loss of non printable characters at start of string.
282	tony	229
283	tony	305	10. Add function GetPerfStatistics to IStatement. This returns ISQL like performance
284			statistics for the last action. Requires use of procedure IStatement.EnableStatistics
285			to enable stats gathering.
286	tony	231
287	tony	305	11. API Version information added as constants to IB.pas
288	tony	209
289	tony	305	12. BlobMetaData character set id should now be the same as that given by IColumnMetaData.GetCharSetID
290	tony	151
291	tony	305	13. Firebird Character set "NONE" now interpreted as codepage CP_ACP.
292	tony	151
293	tony	305	FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:47 +0000
294	tony	101
295	tony	305	1. Initial Release
296	tony	101