V4RB 3.5.2 vs. V4RB 4 backward compatibility

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 2/14/09 12:35 AM, "Steve Albin" <steve at steve-albin.com> wrote:

Hi Steve,

> After incurring a serious indexing problem with a V4RB 3.5.2 database that
> would not resolve with cloning or a dump/reload, I decided to upgrade to V4RB
> 4.  
> 
> For one thing, I am very pleased that my app compiled and ran without any
> modifications on my part.
> 
> I opened my problem database with the rebuilt app and the previous problems
> disappeared.  That was what I expected because I tested this a while back
> using the beta of VStudio.
> 
> I closed the database and, just for fun, opened it with the V4RB 3.5.2 version
> of my app that was crashing and giving diagnose errors.  The problems are gone
> in this version also.  I am very pleasantly surprised that V4RB 4 seems to be
> backward compatible with version 3.5.2.
> 
> Can I be seeing this correctly?  If this is true, I can send my user a fixed
> copy of his database and he does not have to wait until I release my V4RB 4
> version of my app.

Yes, no changes in format of db


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