RE: Migrating from 7.31 FC2 to 7.31 FC6

Look at PTS 129463 - ROLLFORWARD OF ROLLBACK OPERATIONS ON BTREES CAUSES ASSERT FAILURE AND LEADS TO AN ENGINE HANG. Its impact is not limited to HDR. -----Original Message----- From: bwhite@deroyal.com [mailto:bwhite@deroyal.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 07:10 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Migrating from 7.31 FC2 to 7.31 FC6 In article <398f4fcb_3@news2.vip.uk.com>, "smooth1" <smooth1@iclway.co.uk> wrote: > > Masa wrote in message <8mjti8$k81$1@news.kolumbus.fi>... > >I'm going to migrate a very large Informix instance from 7.31 FC2 to 7.31 > >FC6. > > Don't! There is a bug in UC6 where if you create an index and > the create index gets rolled back then > > a) The rollback fails > b) The engine then Assert Fails and shuts down > c) The engine will NOT restart due to the corruption > > and IT IS RESTORE FROM BACKUP TIME!! > > UC6 is NO NO Does anyone have a Bug ID and/or description from Techinfo on this UC6 index bug? > > I am moving customers to UC5-1. I have heard this has optimizer > problems (can anyone say more about this e.g. a Bug ID from > the Techinfo Centre and a description so I can find it??). > > Is UC7/UC8 out yet?? Does anyone have the release notes?? > > David Williams (FAQ www.smooth1.demon.co.uk) > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.