Re: Informix SQL reports core dumping :-(
Posted in 1992
>> From uunet!rmy.emory.edu!informix-list-owner Thu Jan 23 10:55:12 1992 >> From: phil sutherland <uunet!mycroft.DIALix.oz.au!philsuth> >> Subject: Informix SQL reports core dumping :-( >> To: Informix Mailing List <informix-list@rmy.emory.edu> >> >> Gentle Netfolk, >> >> We've recently moved from Informix SQL 2.10.03 to a set of >> SE (4.00.UE4) and SQL (4.00.UE1). One ofthe big 'wins' of >> the new software is the implementation of the DATETIME type. >> >> However, using DATETIME variables or PARAMs in an ACE report >> when said variable or parameter is used within the SELECT >> statement, causes isql to core dump. >> >> Is this a known bug or feature? Hmmm... I'm having a hard time thinking why any core dump would be a feature (save certain security violations and such). Definitely a bug. Known bug #8677, fixed in 4.10. >> The following example report triggers the bug. Oh, hardware is >> 80386/80486 running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 or SCO Unix 3.2v2 respectively. 4.10 ISQL is available on SCO UNIX, but not SCO XENIX (yet, anyway). >> Thanks >> phil -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "I must have gone through 20 Porsches in the last 15 years. Now I own a Ferrari Testarossa. My body would reject a Plymouth." --Willie Brown, speaker of the California State Assembly