Re: ouch, that hurts

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: -- publictimestamp.org/ptb/PTB-2182 ripemd320 2008-01-03 06:00:04 BBFBE7687C13285702596A06FF3CC7F26EB071F19A1682C50AAB15CF7B127270F008E9 3F5F020A4 > > >> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:22:46 -0500 >> From: art@oninit.com >> To: im_gumby@hotmail.com >> CC: normajean.sebastian@tellabs.com; dcruncher4@aim.com; > informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: ouch, that hurts >> >> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > [SNIP] > >> > (Somehow I do imagine that people will miss the point I'm trying to >> > make... ;-) >> >> Hey! I LIKED ODS 6.01! Besides, it wasn't nearly the debacle that IDS >> 7.10 - 7.12 or 9.10-9.20 were! >> >> It was 7.11 that originally turned folks at my former employer off to >> Informix. I had them all won over using 6.01, then we upgraded to 7.11 >> (and quickly to 7.12) and WHAM! Bug city. >> >> Art S. Kagel >> Oninit >> > Well I think you were in the beta program since Online 6.x never went GA > (if my memory serves me.) OnLine Dynamic Server 6.00.UE1 was the first and basically only release of ODS 6.x. Version 7.00 was, AFAIK, only available on Sequent; 7.10 was the GA version of 7.00 for other platforms, with extra fixes, etc. > I believe that there were some major architecture changes. Slight understatement. OnLine 5.x has an sqlturbo process for each separate user connection. ODS 6.x and all later versions use the Dynamic Scalable Architecture, DSA, which has multi-threaded server where a fixed number of processes deals with all client sessions. This required changes in the connectivity (no longer using pipes to talk to the server) too, hence the introduction of ASF - Association Services Facility - to connect to the database. It was, not coincidentally, at this time that the size of the ESQL/C client-side library grew enormously. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2007.0914 -- http://dbi.perl.org/