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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.4-2 Build 14156) Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:05:47 +0000
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+. IBUtils.FormatTimeZoneOffset A zero offset now includes a preceding '+' sign.
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+. TFBStatement.DoJournaling now exits immediately if journaling is not active. The
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+   motivation for this is to avoid calling the Firebird API function 'getInfo'
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+   unnecesarily. This function can return an error if an incompatible parameter type was
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+   applied to the statement and hence can confuse resolving the bug. Note: a
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+   specific case is in (e.g.) OpenCursorAtStart method when the array of const includes a
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+   TDateTime. In this case, the param is set to a floating point type rather than
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+   a Firebird datetime (array of const loses the distinction).
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+. TFBAttachment.SetParameters. if an attempt is made to set a parameter with a float
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+   value, the metadata type is checked to see if the parameter is a Date/Time type. If so then
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+   the value is assumed to be a TDateTime and the parameter is set using the AsDateTime
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+   property. Otherwise, the value is assumed to be a floating point type and the AsDouble
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+   property is used to set the property. This avoids the specific example given above.
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.4-1 Build 14103) Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:26:35 +0000
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+. FBSQLData: ensure that TResults.getSQLData and TResults.GetData use same error
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+   checks for range checking.
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+. FB25Client: In GetIBMessage, fb_interpret is now called multiple times such that
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+   any additional error information is decoded.
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+. FB25Statement: When changing a param type from Blob sub_type 1 to SQL_TEXT or SQL_VARYING
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+   charsetid is now preserved and size is set to default blob size. Now aligns with
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+   FB3 and later.
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+. DDL and DML string literals are now explicitly set to the connection character
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+   set rather than the default character set provided by the compiler.
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+. General tidy up of transliteration functions, now centralised in IBUtils. FPC testing
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+   now makes use of the RTL fpwidestring unit for support of international character
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+   sets.
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+. Database exception handling (see section 9.3 in user guide).
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+    * For FB3 and later API: Connection Character set now applied to message returned
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+      by fb_interpret and message then transliterated if necessary to the system character set.
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+    * For Legacy API: The message character set is guessed as UTF8 unless invalid
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+      UTF8 characters found when connection character set is assumed. Message then
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+      transliterated if necessary to system character set.
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+      Note: this difference of behaviour is because legacy API presents exception messages
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+      "as is", while FB3 server attempts to transliterate to connection character set.
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.4-0 Build 14011) Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:09:09 +0100
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+. Support package fbudr added for support of User Defined Routines (UDRs), and package
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+   fbudrtestbed for client side debugging of UDR libraries.
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+. Package layout changed with introduction of udr support. IB*.pas files moved from
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+    root directory to "client". IBHeader moved to "Client".
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+. Delphi packages: all packages now compile .dcp and .bpi files to either
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+   fbintf\Win32\Debug or fbintf\Win64\Debug by default. Please remove any pre-existing
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+   fbintf.dcp and fbintf.bpi files from other locations.
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+. Client side journaling support added. Interface changes
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+   IAttachment
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+    function JournalingActive: boolean;
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+    function GetJournalOptions: TJournalOptions;
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+    function StartJournaling(aJournalLogFile: AnsiString): integer; overload;
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+    function StartJournaling(aJournalLogFile: AnsiString; Options: TJournalOptions): integer; overload;
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+    function StartJournaling(S: TStream; Options: TJournalOptions): integer; overload;
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+    procedure StopJournaling(RetainJournal: boolean);
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+. Transactions may now be given a local transaction name:
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+   IFirebirdAPI
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+     function StartTransaction(Attachments: array of IAttachment;
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+             TPB: array of byte; DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit): ITransaction; overload;
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+             TPB: array of byte; DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit;
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+             aName: AnsiString=''): ITransaction; overload;
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+     function StartTransaction(Attachments: array of IAttachment;
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+             TPB: ITPB; DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit): ITransaction; overload;
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+             TPB: ITPB; DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit;
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+             aName: AnsiString=''): ITransaction; overload;
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+   IAttachment
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+    function StartTransaction(TPB: array of byte; DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit): ITransaction; overload;
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+    function StartTransaction(TPB: ITPB; DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit): ITransaction; overload;
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+    function StartTransaction(TPB: array of byte;
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+                              DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit;
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+                              aName: AnsiString=''): ITransaction; overload;
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+    function StartTransaction(TPB: ITPB;
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+                              DefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion=taCommit;
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+                              aName: AnsiString=''): ITransaction; overload;
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+  ITransaction
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+    function GetTransactionName: AnsiString;
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+    procedure SetTransactionName(aValue: AnsiString);
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+. Additional Transaction information
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+     ITPB.function AsText: AnsiString; {Returns TPB as a text string}
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+   ITransaction
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+     function GetDefaultCompletion: TTransactionCompletion;
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+     function GetJournalingActive(attachment: IAttachment): boolean; {attachment must be specified when multi-database transaction}
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+. New IAttachment helper functions
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+     function HasTable(aTableName: AnsiString): boolean;
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+     function HasFunction(aFunctionName: AnsiString): boolean;
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+     function HasProcedure(aProcName: AnsiString): boolean;
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+     function GetAttachmentID: integer;
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+     function GetCharSetID: integer;
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+. IStatement: if the BatchRowLimit is set to maxint, the maximum possible buffer size
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+   will be allocated for batch operations.
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+. IStatement, IColumnMetaData and ISQLParam all now consistently provide:
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+    function GetStatement: IStatement;
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+    function GetTransaction: ITransaction;
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+    function GetAttachment: IAttachment;
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+. Internal: a more disciplined approach to the handling of Firebird.IReferenceCounted
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+    interfaces.
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+. New interface type: IFBNumeric. IFBNumeric is implemented in the unit FBNumeric
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+    and concentrates all handling of Fixed Point numbers. New ISQLItem and ISQLParam
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+    functions getAsNumeric and setAsNumeric allow for direct retrival and manipulation
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+    of numerics without loss of precision.
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+. TryStrToNumeric and NumericToDouble moved from IBUtils to FBNumeric.
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+. ISQLParams new method "Clear"
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+. Connection Info (e.g. ODS Version, Remote Protocol) now retrieved on first
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+    request rather than on attachment connect.
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+. IStatus.IBDataBaseErrorMessages now defaults to [ShowIBMessage]. This reflects the
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+    fact that SQLCodes are soon to be deprecated. In the future, the other options
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+    will be silently ignored if SQLCode support is not present in the Firebird
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+    Client library.
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+. ITransaction changes Rollback and Commit from procedures to functions:
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+      function Commit(Force: boolean=false): TTrCompletionState;
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+      function Rollback(Force: boolean=false): TTrCompletionState;
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+    Specifically, this is to allow the functions to report back a failed commit or
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+    rollback when Force = true. In the case, the transaction handle has been
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+    released, while the transaction remains in limbo.
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+. IAttachment ExecImmediate.
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+    When the transaction parameters are provided as an array of const and the
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+    statement fails, the transaction is rolledback (forced) before the exception
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+    is raised.
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+. In Firebird 3 and later API: the status vector is now a thread var, as was
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+    already the case with the legacy API. Avoids problems when calling underlying
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+    Firebird API in multiple threads.
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+. IBUtils: TSQLXMLReader: "string" type changed to "AnsiString" for compatibility
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+    reasons.
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+. IDBInformation.DecodeVersionString now supported isc_info_firebird_version.
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+. TSQLXMLReader: handle 'blob' as a reserved word
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+. ISQLParam.SetAsVariant now accepts a vartype of varUString (UnicodeString).
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.3-3 Build 12935) Mon, 06 Dec 2021 23:17:13 +0000
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+. Fix compile error with fpc trunk (3.3.1 and later), due to type change to tzname in "unix" unit.
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+. Remove constraint in IAttachment.HasScollableCursors that returned false when
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+   using remote protocol. Scrollable cursors with remote database expected to
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+   be support for Firebird 4.0.1 onwards. Note: Firebird 4.0.0 will return
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+   a not supported error.
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+. IStatement: new function;
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+    TStatementFlag = (stHasCursor,stRepeatExecute,stScrollable);
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+    TStatementFlags = set of TStatementFlag;
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+    function GetFlags: TStatementFlags;
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+. Revised behaviour for IStatement.ExecuteQuery in order to preserve backwards
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+   compatibility.
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+   In Firebird 5, Update..Returning may returns multiple rows and hence the statemen
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+   type changes from ExecProcedure to Select. So that ExecuteQuery can continue
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+   to be used with Update...Retruning statements that return a singleton row,
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+   instead of raising an exception when ExecuteQuery is used with a (SELECT) statement,
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+   it will open the cursor and return the first row only.
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+. ITransaction: new functions:
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+    function GetIsReadOnly: boolean;
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+    function GetTransactionID: integer;
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+    function GetTrInformation(Requests: array of byte): ITrInformation; overload;
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+    function GetTrInformation(Request: byte): ITrInformation; overload;
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+   The latter two return the Transaction Information block. The first two extract
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+   information the Transaction Information block
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+. New function TSQLTokeniser.ReadCharacters
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+   Used internally.
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+. IStatement: GetProcessedSQL bug fix. No longer raises and error if SQL contains
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+   parameter placeholders instead of named parameters.
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+. ITransaction (Firebird 3 and later): An exception raised when freeing an underlying
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+   transaction handle is now ignored if Rollback/Commit is called with Force=true
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+. Tidy up of exception handling code. Under the legacy API, fb_interpret is now
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+   used to get an IBError Message instead of isc_interprete.
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+. Internal tidyup. Native code now used for decoding integers and the events
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+    buffer. Avoids dependencies on fbclient functions isc_portable_integer,
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+    isc_event_block and isc_event_counts.
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+. New IAttachment function
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+     function GetAttachmentID: integer;
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+. Internal changes to TFBClientAPI, TFBAttachment and TFBTransaction and TFB30
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+    subclasses to enable UDR support.
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.3-2 Build 12889) Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:49:28 +0100
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+. TFBClientAPI.GetProcAddr. Add check for nil reference.
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+. IStatement: new methods:
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+    procedure SetStaleReferenceChecks(Enable:boolean); {default true}
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+    function GetStaleReferenceChecks: boolean;
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+   In previous versions, stale reference checks were always enabled. This allows the
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+   user to disable them on a per statement basis. Note this can risk out-of-date
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+   statement BLR. See User Guide.
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+. IBUtils: TSQLwithNamedParamsTokeniser now recognises a CASE...END block within a
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+   stored procedure and hence avoids replacing named parameters within a containing
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+   BEGIN..END block.
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+. ISQLParam: using a string value to set an integer field with a scale factor of
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+   zero is now treated as a special case to avoid the risk of floating point
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+   rounding errors affecting pure integers.
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+. ISQLParam:  Review and tidy-up of SetAsString for numeric types.
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+. ISQLParam is now subclassed from IParamMetaData, which provides access to the mutable
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+   SQL Parameter metadata (methods moved from ISQLParam).
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+. ISQLParam: new method
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+     function getColMetadata: IParamMetaData;
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+   This instance of IParamMetaData returns the original column metadata which is unmutable.
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+   Note: ISQLParam metadata can change after a parameter value has been set e.g when
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+   setting a VARCHAR column to an integer value.
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+. IStatement: can now set cursor name when opening a cursor. New overloaded method:
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+    procedure Prepare(CursorName: AnsiString; aTransaction: ITransaction=nil); overload;
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+   also IAttachment:
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+    function Prepare(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; aSQLDialect: integer; CursorName: AnsiString=''): IStatement; overload;
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+    function Prepare(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; CursorName: AnsiString=''): IStatement; overload;
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+    function PrepareWithNamedParameters(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString;
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+                       aSQLDialect: integer; GenerateParamNames: boolean=false;
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+                       CaseSensitiveParams: boolean = false; CursorName: AnsiString=''): IStatement; overload;
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+    function PrepareWithNamedParameters(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString;
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+                       GenerateParamNames: boolean=false;
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+                       CaseSensitiveParams: boolean = false; CursorName: AnsiString=''): IStatement; overload;
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+. Support for scrollable cursors added. New/updated methods:
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+   IAttachment:
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+    function HasScollableCursors: boolean;
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+    function OpenCursor(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; aSQLDialect: integer;
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+                             Scrollable: boolean=false): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursor(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; Scrollable: boolean=false): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursor(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; aSQLDialect: integer; Scrollable: boolean;
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+                             params: array of const): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursor(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; Scrollable: boolean=false;
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+                             params: array of const): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursorAtStart(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; aSQLDialect: integer; Scrollable: boolean;
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+                             params: array of const): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursorAtStart(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; aSQLDialect: integer;
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+                             Scrollable: boolean=false): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursorAtStart(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; Scrollable: boolean=false): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursorAtStart(transaction: ITransaction; sql: AnsiString; Scrollable: boolean;
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+                             params: array of const): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursorAtStart(sql: AnsiString; Scrollable: boolean=false): IResultSet; overload;
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+    function OpenCursorAtStart(sql: AnsiString; Scrollable: boolean;
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+                             params: array of const): IResultSet; overload;
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+   IStatement:
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+     function OpenCursor(Scrollable: boolean; CursorName: AnsiString =''; aTransaction: ITransaction=nil): IResultSet; overload;
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+   IResultSet:
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+    function FetchPrior: boolean; {fetch previous record}
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+    function FetchFirst:boolean; {fetch first record}
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+    function FetchLast: boolean; {fetch last record}
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+    function FetchAbsolute(position: Integer): boolean; {fetch record by its absolute position in result set}
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+    function FetchRelative(offset: Integer): boolean; {fetch record by position relative to current}
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+    function IsBof: boolean;
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+. IArray: tidyup of SetAsString method to ensure correct handling of fixed point numbers.
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+. IBUtils: TSQLTokeniser. CRLF now combined by low level parser into sqltEOL token. This
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+    may be noticeable when a line separator occurs inside quoted text. The quoted text
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+    output by the tokeniser will now use the platform specific lineEnding regardless
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+    of whether the input uses the CRLF or LF as a line separator.
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+. IStatement, IResultsSet: Support for scrollable cursors added (note: local databases only)
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.3-1 Build 12776) Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:09:33 +0100
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+. Integer decodes in information blocks (e.g. IDBInfoItem) widened from 32 bit to 64-bit integers.
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+. Support for inline blob encoding. Blob values pass using the "SetAsString" method
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+   will now be encoded inline (i.e. as part of the parameter buffer) if they are
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+   shorter than a pre-set limit. Longer values continue to be saved as blobs as a
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+   separate server interaction. This is intended as a performance optimisation.
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+   The pre-set limit defaults to 8192 bytes and can be inspected/modified using the new
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+   IAttachment interface functions:
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+    function GetInlineBlobLimit: integer;
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+    procedure SetInlineBlobLimit(limit: integer);
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+. Support for Firebird 4 IBatch interface added. This is largely transparent to the API
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+   user as the functionality is embedded in the implementation of the IStatement
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+   interface. Three new functions are defined:
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+    procedure AddToBatch;
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+    function ExecuteBatch(aTransaction: ITransaction=nil): IBatchCompletion;
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+    procedure CancelBatch;
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+    function GetBatchCompletion: IBatchCompletion;
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+    function GetBatchRowLimit: integer;
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+    procedure SetBatchRowLimit(aLimit: integer);
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+   Also
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+    function IsInBatchMode: boolean;        {true after call to execute(eaDefer)}
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+    function HasBatchMode: boolean;         {true if and only if IBatch Supported}
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+   For more information see the User Guide.
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+. Default error message contents. Now aligned with User Guide section 10.2 i.e. error messages
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+   provided with the EIBInterBaseError now include all three parts.
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+. Firebird.pas and include files updated to Firebird 4.0.0
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+. New IStatement method: function GetSQLStatementTypeName: AnsiString;
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+   Returns SQL Statement type as a text string;
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+. ISQLData.AsInteger and AsInt64 now use "Round" to convert a float field to
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+   an integer instead of "trunc". This is for compatibility with TFloatField.AsInteger.
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.2-1 Build 12552) Wed, 09 Jun 2021 13:05:40 +0100
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+. Big fix for Firebird 4.0. A internal change in Firebird 4.0.0 from RC1 flushed out a
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+   typo in FB30Statement.pas that caused an unknown parameter error.
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+FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.2-0 Build 12520) Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:27:23 +0000
+. Imported (Firebird) constants updated for Firebird 4.

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