Feature request CORE-1071

The background garbage collector process was reading all back versions of records on a page, including those created by active transactions. Since back versions of active records cannot be considered for garbage collection, it was wasteful to read them.

Feature request CORE- 961

The engine will now release external table files as soon as they are no longer in use by user requests.

Feature request CORE-976

No details.

Feature request CORE-1169

Conversion of temporary blobs to the destination blob type now occurs when materializing.

Feature request CORE-779

Introduced a type flag for stored procedures, adding column RDB$PROCEDURE_TYPE to the table RDB$PROCEDURES. Possible values are:

Feature request CORE-1558

The configuration parameter BugcheckAbort provides the capability to make the server stop trying to continue operation after a bugcheck and instead, to call abort() immediately and dump a core file. Since a bugcheck usually occurs as a result of a problem the server does not recognise, continuing operation with an unresolved problem is not usually possible anyway, and the core dump can provide useful debug information.

In the more recent Linux distributions the default setups no longer dump core automatically when an application crashes. Users often have troubles trying to get them working. Differing rules for Classic and Superserver, combined with a lack of consistency between the OS setup tools from distro to distro, make it difficult to help out with any useful “general rule”.

Code has been added for Classic and Superserver on Linux to bypass these problems and automate generation of a core dump file when an abort() on BUGCHECK occurs. The Firebird server will make the required 'cwd' (change working directory) to an appropriate writable location (/tmp) and set the core file size limit so that the 'soft' limit equals the 'hard' limit.