Date: 2016-10-05 13:38:50 +0200
From: @eyalroz
To: Merovingian devs <>
Version: 11.23.7 (Jun2016-SP1)

Last updated: 2016-12-21 13:07:58 +0100

Comment 24457

Date: 2016-10-05 13:38:50 +0200
From: @eyalroz

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build Identifier:

I suggest the following:

diff -r 6dfd8ffb7ab2 gdk/gdk_bbp.c
--- a/gdk/gdk_bbp.c Wed Oct 05 12:38:10 2016 +0200
+++ b/gdk/gdk_bbp.c Wed Oct 05 13:37:01 2016 +0200
@@ -1210,7 +1210,10 @@
bbpversion != GDKLIBRARY_OLDWKB &&
bbpversion != GDKLIBRARY_INSERTED &&
bbpversion != GDKLIBRARY_HEADED) {

•           GDKfatal("BBPinit: incompatible BBP version: expected 0%o, got 0%o.", GDKLIBRARY, bbpversion);
  

•           GDKfatal("BBPinit: incompatible BBP version: expected 0%o, got 0%o. "
  

•                   "Database was likely created by a newer release or a development "
  

•                   "version of the server, using an incompatible storage format." ,
  

•                   GDKLIBRARY, bbpversion);
    }
    if (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) == NULL) {
            GDKfatal("BBPinit: short BBP");
  

or an alternative wording of the error message which would be clear to people who do not know what the BBP version means.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 24531

Date: 2016-10-18 11:47:12 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 88921c8c1d79 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=88921c8c1d79

Changeset description:

Elaborated error message for incompatible database version.
This fixes bug #6068.