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WARNING:Latest 4GL+Online buggy

Posted in 1999

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL, Licensing & Editions, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

David Williams — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The latest 4gl has a bug where preparing a string causes the string to have spaces added to it. (Someone here mentioned it, I've logged it as a call in the UK.). e.g. "select a,b,c from t1" becomes "select a , b , c from t1" after you prepare something from it. I'm just installed 4GL 7.30.UC1 which Informix UK have confirmed is the latest on Solaris 2.6. We are trying to upgrade 4gl due to DBCENTURY problems which are impacting a client business. Looks like 7.30.uc1 should be put on quality hold! Also IDS 7.31.UC3-1 has a Y2K problem fixed in 7.31.UC4 but in the UK UC4 Workgroup Edition is not yet orderable! So I can't order a 4gl that works or an Online that works.... Arrggh! David. -- David Williams

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Paul Watson — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <ROGKcFAh12B4EwSh@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk (David Williams) wrote: > > The latest 4gl has a bug where preparing a string causes the string > to have spaces added to it. (Someone here mentioned it, I've logged > it as a call in the UK.). > > e.g. "select a,b,c from t1" becomes > "select a , b , c from t1" > after you prepare something from it. > > I'm just installed 4GL 7.30.UC1 which Informix UK have confirmed is > the latest on Solaris 2.6. We are trying to upgrade 4gl due to > DBCENTURY problems which are impacting a client business. > > Looks like 7.30.uc1 should be put on quality hold! Won't they need a quality department first?? Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com

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Richard Spitz — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

David Williams wrote: > > The latest 4gl has a bug where preparing a string causes the string > to have spaces added to it. (Someone here mentioned it, I've logged > it as a call in the UK.). > > e.g. "select a,b,c from t1" becomes > "select a , b , c from t1" > after you prepare something from it. Why is this a problem? The string with the added spaces is syntactically identical to the original query and will yield the same result. So why bother? Or do you do additional things with the string after the PREPARE? Regards, Richard -- +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Dr. med Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-6110 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-6420 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | GSM : +49-172-8933578 | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+

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