Re: Deleting Chunk..

At 21:28 +0800 14/11/1997, Clem Akins wrote: }Alvin dares: }>Are you daring enough to mess with the reserved pages? I wrote a program }>to read the reserved pages to a text file, and one to write the text file }>back. } }There's almost no need to say this, but here it goes anyway: } }This is totally unsupported! If an Informix support engineer finds that }you have been directly writing the reserved pages the response will likely }be to re-install the product and begin loading data from scratch. You }stand a good chance, especially with later versions the products, of }generating an inconsistency that will not allow the product to initialize. } }Remember, a *little* learning is a dangerous thing... } }___________________________________________________________ }Clem Akins (aka clem@informix.com) <- NEW ACCOUNT! }Informix Software, Inc (Standard disclaimers apply) }International Technical Support }Last seen: Going to the 'Rumble in Brighton Tonight!', UK I agree this *SHOULD NOT* be done. But really sometimes us users just don't have any other option. Even if I get Informix Support to come in to fix the problem, they will ask me to sign a sort of disclaimer form. Anyway for me it started out as an exercise to understanding how Online works. It will really be great if Informix could release some tools that allow 5.x users to do fundamental tasks like dropping chunks, expanding chunks, and so on,that really should have been in 5.x in the first place. Rgds Alvin ================================================================= Alvin Koh <Alvin_Koh@PTS.MOT.COM> Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd Voice: +65 486-2055 Asia Pacific Paging Products Division Fax: +65 483-3649 =================================================================