New in Firebird 5 - Part 1

[Tommi Prami 130]

https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/detailed-new-features-of-firebird-5-part-1-improvements-in-optimizer

My preliminary tests on our product(s) show that FB5 is clearly faster than FB4. Did not need to measure result, because you could see/feel it very easily. When you saw Vista Wheel with FB4, on top of FB5 you can't even see it, form just opens faster.

For sure there will be some corner cases when some query, very carefully optimized for older version of FB will perform worse in FB5. At least always there had been some "regressions". But for every new Firebird release, there has been performance increase.

FB5 is close to the release, so please evaluate is best as you can, and report any bugs or regressions ASAP, so they could be addressed before release. 

 

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[Tommi Prami 130]

Related video:
 

 

[Tommi Prami 130]

And Firebird 5.0 is out...

https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-5-0-0-is-released/

Release notes: https://firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/release_notes/html/en/5_0/rlsnotes50.html
Firebird 5.0 Language Reference: https://firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/html/en/refdocs/fblangref50/firebird-50-language-reference.html
Download: https://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-5-0/

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[sjordi 39]

Still no native iOS deployment?

[Tommi Prami 130]

22 minutes ago, sjordi said:

Still no native iOS deployment?

Not sure. maybe better to ask at Firebird mailing list.

 

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