Re: Logical log backups to non-rewind tape device

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, David Williams wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.970616095226.27401C-100000@kilimanjaro.dallas. > herald.net>, Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net.REMOVE> writes > > >We've found the "known bug" in 5.05 that can corrupt archives. Why Informix > >won't send out alerts on things like this... Aargh. But that's another rant > >entirely. > > > There is an alert on the Techinfo Centre within their Web site. You > need a valid Mainline SUpport ontrat to gain access to it though.. Just how clueless do I seem? There are a grand total of eighteen (18) alerts on this system, dating back BEFORE 6/1/95, with the most recent being 4/1/97. That's less than one a month. Unless you're looking at a different alert section than I am? For data integrety issues, though, a mailing-list would be nice as well, rather than a demand-only web format. 'though at their frequency, it doesn't make much difference. Did I mention that, of those 18, 3 of the "alerts" are new version announcements and one of the remainder is a Techinfo message? That makes 14 real alerts in two years. [ker-snip] > I meant upgrade a test machine to the latest version and see if you > can still reproduce the problem, you will never get a fix unless you > upgrade... Not true -- while its akin to pulling teeth, we have been able to get patches out of Informix in the past. For this problem, we probably will go to 5.08 though. Like I mentioned last time, proving that the known problem is fixed is the easy part, attempting to verify that no others have been introduced is difficult. -Richard