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 Changes in the Firebird EngineReserved Words and Changes 

New System Tables

System tables added in ODS 13.1:

RDB$KEYWORDS

Virtual table that enumerates keywords used by the SQL parser
MON$COMPILED_STATEMENTS

Virtual table that reports compiled statements

New Columns in System Tables

  • RDB$CONDITION_SOURCE and RDB$CONDITION_BLR were added to the system table RDB$INDICES, they belong to the partial indices feature

  • MON$SESSION_TIMEZONE was added to virtual table MON$ATTACHMENTS

  • MON$COMPILED_STATEMENT_ID was added to the virtual tables MON$STATEMENTS and MON$CALL_STACK

  • SEC$DESCRIPTION was added to virtual table SEC$GLOBAL_AUTH_MAPPING

Application Programming Interfaces

The wire protocol version for the Firebird 5.0 API is 18.Additions and changes are described in the sections below.

Main API Extensions

A number of new methods have been added to the following interfaces.

ResultSet

void getInfo(Status status,
             uint itemsLength, const uchar* items,
             uint bufferLength, uchar* buffer);

Used to query cursor information.Currently, only one information item is supported, INF_RECORD_COUNT.INF_RECORD_COUNT returns the number of records cached by the scrollable cursor, or -1 for a uni-directional (forward-only) cursor.