Readme for InterBase 6.0 beta on Linux
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Date: 24 Feb 2000


The current release of InterBase 6.0 beta on Linux does
not support the Services API. A subsequent release
of the product will provide support for this feature.

InterClient, the all JAVA JDBC driver for InterBase 6 
is currently under active development and will be
available shortly as an independent download. Check the
InterBase web site at www.interbase.com and the beta news 
groups for announcements. 

Don't try to ORDER BY a BLOB column
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You should not specify a BLOB column in the ORDER BY clause of an SQL
SELECT statement.  A future version of InterBase may flag such an
ORDER BY clause as an error.  In this version of InterBase, the error
is not detected, but the result is unlikely to be useful.  If you
order by a blob, the returned rows are ordered by the 64-bit internal
blob id which the InterBase engine uses to retrieve the blob contents,
NOT by contents themselves.

