Hello Kwong.
They haven't discarded it, it is included in the tables, except for those
with data striping, in this case you can force online to use it with the
WITH ROWIDS clause in the CREATE TABLE statement.
>From: "K.Hong Lee" <kwonghong@yahoo.com>
>To: informix-list@iiug.org
>Subject: rowid ?
>Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>hi all,
>
>on informix online5, we used rowid in most of the 4GL
>code and AIK, INFORMIX IDS ver7 doesn't support rowid
>column. Any idea why they discarded the rowid ? (may
>be they encourage user to make use of primary key
>rather than rowid) if I insist to use the rowid to
>minimise the code changes any idea how it can be done
>?
>
>Regards,
>
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