[stellation-res] Firebird Testing (Windows)

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan,

I've just successfully completed the remote test suite (all 14 tests)
for Stellation with Firebird.  Congratulations!

(Sorry not to finish testing sooner; I was with my younger daughter
at the NY state debate tournament on Friday and Saturday, rescheduled
from early April due to a severe ice storm at that time).

There've been a number of speed bumps along the way (mostly related to
db initialization, directory location and username/password issues).  I'm 
in the process of writing
these up and making sure I can repeat the install-test process from scratch.
I'll post further details once I'm fairly sure they're correct.

Related tasks:
* Run a local Firebird test suite on Windows
* Run local and remote test suites  on Linux, using PostgreSQL.

I have a couple of questions /comments:

1. The tsvcadmin and tsvcserver batch files include an exit directive.  I 
suppose this is
to facilitate calling these batch files from the Ant test scripts?  While 
debugging some issues,
I was calling tsvcadmin and tsvcserver directly, and had to REM out those 
lines to keep my shell alive.

2. The tsvcserver command line includes the option:
  --database=firebird+D:\Firebird\tsvctest+++sysdba+masterkey
Is the syntax for "+++sysdba+masterkey" documented somewhere?
(and, why "...+++sysdba" rather than "...+sysdba" ??)
More generally, what's the exact syntax for both the --database
option (for tsvcserver) and the --location option (for tsvcadmin).

Regards,

- Jim

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