Development News - March 2025

Disallow creation of object names with only spaces

GitHub Issue: 8452 Affected versions: 4.0.5, 5.0.2, 6.0 Initial Fixed for: 6.0 Alpha 1

This is currently valid:

create table " " (n integer)

Considering that empty names are not allowed and trailing spaces are discharged, names with only spaces should be considered as empty.

Inheritance of WINDOW does not work

GitHub Issue: 8477 Affected versions: 4.0.5, 5.0.2, 6.0 Initial Fixed for: 4.0.6, 5.0.3, 6.0 Alpha 1

Segfault/AV on incorrect databases.conf starting with subconfig

GitHub Issue: 8485 Affected versions: 3.0.12, 4.0.5, 5.0.2, 6.0 Initial Fixed for: 3.0.13, 4.0.6, 5.0.3, 6.0 Alpha 1

Firebird 3+ fall with segfault/AV on incorrect database.conf with alone DPB, f.e.:

#security.db = $(dir_secDb)/security3.fdb
{
  RemoteAccess = false
  DefaultDbCachePages = 320
  LockMemSize = 2M
}

Strange error with text concatention UTF8+win1250

GitHub Issue: 8435 Affected versions: 3.0.12, 4.0.5, 5.0.2, 6.0 Initial Fixed for: 6.0 Alpha 1

MIN/MAX aggregates may badly affect the join order in queries with mixed INNER/LEFT joins

GitHub Issue: 8488 Affected versions: 5.0.2, 6.0 Initial Fixed for: 5.0.3, 6.0 Alpha 1

UNLIST table-valued function

GitHub Issue: 8005 Apply to: 6.0 Alpha 1

Implement a built-in function working the opposite way to the existing aggregate function LIST - i.e. parse the delimited string and return a record set containing the parsed values.