Re: OnLine 5.0 BUG -- create index problems
Posted in 1992
In article <1992Jul28.160546.13164@hellgate.utah.edu> cdoe%perle.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Carlton Doe) writes:
> MAJOR BUG IN 5.0 -- tables MUST be locked in exclusive mode
> before creating indexes or risk trashing the systables
> rowid pointers into the indexes. This trashes the data-
> base requiring a dbexport/dbimport or restore from archive.
There are no known bugs in 5.0 OnLine that resemble these symptoms. Do you
have anything reproducible? Any chance you were mixing 5.0 and pre-5.0
software versions against the same OnLine servers?
>I must say I was pleased with the restoration process. I had never done a restore
>in the OnLine environment just Turbo. The restore ran very smoothly and most
>important of all, quickly!
Better than Turbo, eh? [-:
>Carlton Doe
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