Why do I get an unsupported on-disk structure error when opening a Firebird database?

Question

I\'m trying to open a .fdb (Firebird) database using FlameRobin but it is giving me the following error message:

*** IBPP::SQLException ***
Context: Database         


        

Answer 1

The error tells you that your Firebird version does not understand the on-disk structure (ODS) version of the database file. The database file has ODS 11.2, while your Firebird understands ODS 11.1 (and lower).

ODS 11.2 means it is a Firebird 2.5 database, while support for ODS 11.1 indicates you are currently using a Firebird 2.1 server. To be able to read the database, you will need to install Firebird 2.5.

See also All Firebird and InterBase On-Disk-Structure (ODS) versions.

Note that this is unrelated to the version of FlameRobin.