[fpc-pascal] FBAdmin

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

I've added a call to FBAdmin to what I'm working on, to get the full 
description of the server (i.e. comparable to PostgreSQL's version() 
function). Thanks Ludo :-)

Is it possible to piggyback this onto an open Firebird connection, in 
case somebody interposes some sort of connection pooling layer?

Is there any way of determining what port the client is using for an 
open connection (i.e. not the 3050 at the server end)? Postgres 
implements this with inet_client_port(), and I'm considering a situation 
where the port numbers could be used as a low-security authenticator for 
backchannel commands (e.g. so that a server could tell a client to choke 
work it's relaying for one particular user who's hogging bandwidth).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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