Re: possible causes of -211 SQL ERROR

Daniel Wright wrote: > > -211 Cannot read system catalog catalog-table. > > I know you're supposed to see the ISAM error, but some bastard was not > getting it correctly, so > now I'm very curious as to what caused it. > > (It was during an update statement). I ran tbcheck afterwards on the > table in question and it looked ok, > so I assumed one of the system tables must have been locked, until I > asked myself why a system table > might be locked and the only explanation I could think of was if someone > were doing some sort of > alter table or index or create or drop or something like that and noone > with that authority was anywhere> near the machine. > > I guess maybe it could have been an update statistics, but this seems > unlikely. > any ideas? Version? Some 5.0x versions locked the systable record for the table during update statistics. Another possibility might be an oncheck/tbcheck. Art S. Kagel