Re: Informix 7.3 on Linux -25580 Error

From: Thomas Parsli <thomas.parsli@startsiden.no> > >"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> writes: > > > From: Thomas Parsli <thomas.parsli@startsiden.no> > > > > > >dwight@rudolph.com (Dwight Rudolph Jr) writes: > > > > > > > In article <m3em5ocrqi.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>, > > >ronald@forte-intl.com > > > > says... > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm just a bit reluctant to throw more money at this problem, > > >considering that > > > > 1) it's MY money, and > > > > > >It's bloody inexpensive, you know that? > > > > I'll take your word for it. :0) > >Take Intrawares word for it: >"Promotionally priced at $199 per user and $2000 per CPU!" Tell me, would you spend $200 on a new Brand X shaver if the previous version kept nicking you? > > >Sorting is the only ting I _really_ hate on Linux, probably because > > >of cooked-files, dbspaces for sorting took about three times as long as > > >using filesystem (haven't played with raw-patches or using devices as > > >files). > > > > Tsk. Tsk. Have you tried PSORT_NPROCS and (more importantly) >PSORT_DBTEMP, > > then? > >Yes, but probably not enough... I'm (still) waiting for 2.4 to emerge as >the >holy penguin -with raw disk, and a better scheduler;) Try it some more, then. > > >I hasn't crashed (yet), receives ~220.000 updates each day (small >records > > >in that table) and generally seems just fine. > > > > Must have slipped past QA, then. > >Whaddayamean? QA? -Didn't know they did that anymore... Yeah... > > Personally, I think it's important for people to get over the fear of >9.x > > hurdle. There's a whole new world on the other side, provided you ignore >the > > DataBlade BS. I mean, DataBlades may help a lot of people, but not the > > majority (IMHO). > >I think datablades are great, the lack of "good ones" are not that great >-but time will probably help. > > > But the ability to extend the database and embed real > > business-valuable login into the server is a cracker. > >The new datatypes and the possibility to extent those are great, but >we still can't create indexes on those -and forget about foreign keys... You can't? Wow. I must be reading a different manual, then :-) > > I'm working on a data warehouse with IDS.2000 and there are so many > > constraints I've been freed from because I don't have to limit myself to > > "conventional" database technology. My C is taking a beating, because >it's > > so rusty, but as I move along I can definitely see that Informix has >once > > again been beating entirely the wrong drum and mismarketing IDS.2000 >(and > > IUS 9.x, by implication) > >The have actually done marketing? I use the term in it's broadest possible sense. :-) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com