Re: HPL problem on 9.40

Posted in 2004

Jonathan Leffler — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:57:28 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Andy Watson wrote: > Some more information on this problem and its symptoms: > > We're running a large number (172) of HPL unload jobs one after the > other from the command line using onpladm. > > The unloads are being done to /dev/null as we only want the pages to > be read into memory to force the header conversion that is performed > on each page following an "onmode -BC 2" in 9.40. Hmmm...is that really quicker than: UPDATE Sometable SET SomeColumn = SomeColumn; -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/