Re: Upgrading Informix 7.10 to 7.14

David Williams wrote: > > In article <33a5a53f.27105316@pegasus>, Audie Wright <audiew@thisco.com> > writes > >I will be upgrading Informix Soon. > > > >I am currently running Informix 7.10 UD2 on a Pyramid Nile 150. > > > >If any one has any major concerns, tips, tricks, or suggestions that > >could be of benefit, I would appreciate it. > > > >Also if there are any horror stories as well. > > > >Audie Wright > >Programmer / Analyst > >Pegasus Systems > > Make sure OPTCOMPIND in your ONCONFIG file remains at the old value, > the install will set it to 2!! (Normally I would expect it to be 0 in > my systems). > > -- > David Williams I am working on the same installation - 7.10 on a Nile 150 - and we encountered two bugs one of which is solved only by upgrading to 7.22 (which we are in the process of doing). we tried upgrading to 7.14 but the vendor to my gov't agency wasn't able to provide a good installation package so we were never able to successfully upgrade to 7.14. I can't give you a lot of details on the 7.10 bugs because I keep that info on my desk not in my head but I'll look it up and send another reply. Basically there were problems with composite indexes and using multiple cpus. ed schrantz