Frontbase 5.x is OUT

FRONTBASE NEWS
FrontBase version 5 is a major upgrade and included number of new features of which the most important is the full 64 bit mode, which greatly enhance the addressing capabilities of the server.
FRONTBASE NEWS
FrontBase version 5 is a major upgrade and included number of new features of which the most important is the full 64 bit mode, which greatly enhance the addressing capabilities of the server.

Release notes :

FrontBase Distribution 5.1.1
===============================================================

FrontBase version 5 is a major upgrade which is NOT binary compatible with
FrontBase 4. In order to migrate databases from FrontBase 4 to FrontBase 5 is is
necessary to perform an export of the data to the architecture neutral format with FrontBase 4, create a new FrontBase 5 database, and import the data again.

FrontBase 5 includes a number of new features of which the most important is the full 64 bit mode, which greatly enhance the caching capabilities of the server. Consequently it is possible to specify rdd cache larger than 1800 M.

FrontBase 5 supports 2**60 rows per table.

FrontBase 5 offers improved performance when dealing with many small write transactions.

The FBExec is now started by launchd the replacement for startup items.


sql92 command line tool
===============================================================

sql92 support an option for specifying a database on the command

-d @:
-d
-d :

The second form uses localhost and _system, the third form use _system as defaults