Bug#992133: ITP: firebird4.0 -- Firebird RDBMS (version 4.0)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : firebird4.0
Version : 4.0.0.2496
Upstream Author : Firebird developers (firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net)
* URL : https://www.firebirdsql.org/
* License : Mostly Initial Developer Public License 1.0 (MPL-like)
Programming Lang: C++, C
Description : Feature-rich, scalable relational database
Firebird 4 is the next generation following firebird 3 (available as
firebird3.0 in Debian). Compared to firebird 3, this version adds:
* Built-in logical replication;
* Extended length of metadata identifiers (up to 63 characters);
* New INT128 and DECFLOAT data types, longer precision for NUMERIC/DECIMAL
data types;
* Support for international time zones;
* Configurable time-outs for connections and statements;
* Pooling of external connections;
* Batch operations in the API;
* Built-in cryptographic functions;
* New ODS (version 13) with new system and monitoring tables;
* Maximum page size increased to 32KB.
It needs to be packaged separately because the on-disk database format is not
compatible with firebird3.0.
The packaging is based on firebird3.0, with updated copyright and patches.
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