MORE Bugs in 5.02UD6?

Posted in 1994

Joe Lumbley — Sat, 5 Nov 1994 02:34:04 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Folks, I just discovered this one on a site 2000 miles from home 40 minutes after Informix support closed for the weekend. We went from 5.01 to 5.02.UD2 and had all the problems that caused them to pull 5.02.UD2 from the market. After all their hoopla and "proactive" BS, Informix sent me their "new, improved" 5.02.UD6 that was going to cure the memory leak fixes.....ad nauseum. Being the paranoid DBA that I am, I called support and asked them about the release. I posted to the Net asking if anyone had had problems. Nothing significant. Then two days ago I posted about a GROUP BY wierdness. Got two Net responses from HP gurus who said there was a problem with GROUP BY in 5.02UD6. Great, I'd already installed one about 1000 miles from the office, but the system was working ok with only the GROUP by problems. Now I'm in LA trying to install 5.02.UD6 and run across this. DBACCESS complains about a ERROR 206 (Cannot allocate memory) when you try to get table status twice in a row in dbaccess. This is a pain, but it can be lived with for a while.......but..... Has anybody seen anything else wrong with 5.02UD6 (especially on HP)? Is there another killer just waiting for me to get on an airplane to come back home before it manifests itself? I'm not feeling real comfortable with this product :( And a further, rhetorical question. Has Informix ever heard the term "regression testing"? You'd think that if 5.02 was so bad that they had to take it off the market, that when they re-released it they would try to test it a little. Like maybe it might be a little ****EMBARASSING**** to them do make the same stupid mistakes twice in a row? Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley Dallas, Texas Hi, y'all Watch for my INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide from Prentice-Hall/Informix Press ISBN 0-13-124314-4 (12431-3) Due in bookstores October 28, 1994 orders: orders@prenhall.com (515) 284-6761 fax (515) 284-2607 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------