[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141846] Firebird 3 - failure to connect to Firebird file - file structure incompatibility on macOS

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141846

--- Comment #20 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #16)
> If I've understood your big/little endian comment, it basically means that
> in an enterprise setting, or for an association or club, that it will be
> impossible to have one single ODB file covering all OS arch.

As said, LibreOffice's embedded DB stores a *backup*, not the FDB itself. And
the backups are platform-independent; that means that ODBs with embedded
databases *are* cross-platform: on any platform, LibreOffice first expands the
internal FBK to an FDB native for current host, then works with it, and finally
backs up the end result and stores the new FBK into ODB, ready for work on any
other system.

Also working with a FB server would ne problem-free: the server runs on its
platform, and connecting to if from anywhere is OK (just not implemented using
our SDBC driver yet).

What would be (expectedly) problematic is working with a separate FDB ("connect
to existing Firebird file"): the FDBs are platform- and version-specific.

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