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Many of IB's limitations and bugs have been removed over the years. I think it was around FB2.5 that it really became a better product than IB ever was. A cool thing, though, is that it's very backward compatible. If you have applications that expect IB6, they will happily connect to any version of FB, even using the old client lib. The pace of development has ramped up since FB3, which was focused on rearchitecting the core. That's mostly a good thing. Still, I fear a little that it will also affect reliability.

Not sure exactly what kind of situation got you in trouble, but I haven't had any issues (ab)using the database myself. Disk space is still not reclaimed. It does, however, get used when the amount of data grows again, of course. Effectively the database is always the largest size it ever needed to be, but no larger. Most of the time, that shouldn't be any issue. If you expect huge spikes, there are other ways around it.




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