Anybody familiar with the Firebird database? About all I know is it's Interbase turned open source. Hadn't heard too much about it until Mozilla's Phoenix project decided to rename to Firebird. A poster on Slashdot said the Firebird db is pretty comparable to PostgreSQL.

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

    I just downloaded the latest .tar.gz and it won't build on my RH 7.2 box no matter what I try. Postgresql is definitely easier to build. But I may just grab some RPMs or what not and try it that way.

    I would say that Postgresql probably has faster / better development than any other FOSS database around, and the folks on firebird seem to be in the same league as the developers of Postgresql (i.e. they're damned good programmers) there are just fewer of them.

      Hi,

      we use Win-firebird and are quite satisfied with their SQL and performance - and missed nothing yet.
      Best regards,

      King Louie

        7 months later

        i am also using firebird,
        i just instal firebird last release 1.5.

        my problem is connected with gds32.dll

        in windows/system32/ is located firebird gds32.dll

        when i start my apache server i get error about that
        interbase_dll cannot be loaded,
        i know that this error i catch because gds32.dll from php/dll/ directory not jet copied to the windows/system32 directory

        php has old version of gds32.dll, but firebird has new version of gds32.dll and firebird works with her ovn gds32.dll,

        what i must to do in this situation ?
        i must to copy gds32.dll from php/dlls directory to the windows/system32 ????

        this will be right decision or not ??????

        thanks

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