Re: informix database format

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------649F657F7173 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nils Myklebust wrote: > Mauro Minenna <minenna@a2500.cra.enel.it> wrote: > :I would like to know something more about the internal format of an > :informix DB. The content of .idx and .dat files and so on... > :Could anybody help me? (A RTFM answer is appreciated too if you state > :what manual I should read to gather that info). > > Why do you need this? You should be *very* carefull doing anything to > the data without using the engine. [snip] > That's about as much as I know. Mostly found out via the hd-command on > unix once I had to restore a crashed database many years ago. You could have saved yourself a lot of time and effort: get a copy of the CISAM manual. The appendices contain all the info about the data structures used by SE (remember that at its most basic level, SE is simply an SQL engine built using CISAM). -- Dave Kosenko, Informix Professional Services --------------649F657F7173 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Disclaim" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Disclaim" ************************************************************************* Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in this message are well-reasoned and insightful; needless to say, they are not those of Informix Software, its partners or lackeys. Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight. --------------649F657F7173--