Re: Version 7.3x

Posted in 1998

Hans Siebrand — Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:16:01 +1100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Blacker, Herb wrote: > We are about to purchase Informix for our RS/6000 machine. > Is it not true that version 7.3x needs AIX 4.3 or above? > Can I get some feedback on experiences (good and bad) with 7.30 or 7.31? > TIA, > ____________________ > Herb Blacker > Database Administrator > hhblack@prninc.com I have just resently upgraded one of our clients to 7.3x and 4GL 6.05 on AIX 4.3.1 We came up against a couple of new features: 1) The enviroment variable NO_SUBQF is used to speed up subqueries 99% of the time. However, in our case a query went from under 1 second on Online5 to around two minutes. So we had to set NO_SUBQF=1, to get around this problem. 2) We use cursors in report generation, they now crash. Cheers -- Hans Siebrand, jhs@tusc.com.au Laboratory Systems Group, TUSC Computer Systems Pty. Ltd. Phone +61 03 9840 4431 Fax +61 03 9840 2277