Drop support for Firebird

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Drop support for Firebird

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The Firebird DBMS is our least used and most poorly supported database system. I only recall two instances of a user requesting support on Firebird. The PHP module isn't very robust either, it is possible to crash Apache while attempting to connect to a Firebird database. Due to a bug in PHP PDO Firebird module, we can't natively test it with PHPUnit and have to use a custom ODBC wrapper to run tests.

I think time would be better spent on other things than maintaining this DBAL driver.

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Definitely agree. Considering the problems it has, it doesn't seem likely anyone is seriously using it for phpBB anyway.

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+1
And we can add that only firebird does not support the datetime type (if i'm not wrong) and it's a problem for some features (especially for the custom profile fields)
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I agree.

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+1
It's too little used to be worth the maintenance.
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Yes please.

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+1

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MichaelC wrote:+1
It's too little used to be worth the maintenance.
+1.
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Definitely +1

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