Re: Anybody knows this bug ?

kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz (Kerry Sainsbury) wrote: >In article <4ia08n$31e@yoda.adv>, brent@advgroup.co.nz (Brent Jackson) wrote: >>laplo@vir.com (Louis Lapointe) wrote: >> >>>We are experiencing bad crashes with some of our programs. It happens >>>when we call another program that returns a value. >> >>>For example, >>> run l_var_run returning l_status >> >>>The called program will run normally but the calling program will >>>crash on the retunring statement. >> >>Yep, we've seen it... >>Informix support told us it was a known bug, and the "workaround" was to >>remove the RETURNING clauses from RUN statements (great, huh :). The bug >>number is 42571 or 42675. >Wow -- we got that one too. Actually died on a SELECT statement miles >after the RUN (took us ages to find it). We got the same fix too I can relate to that. It took us about 12 person-hours to isolate the error. Which is why it was so aggravating to be told by Informix that it was a "known" bug. It wasn't in the release notes ! Cheers, Brent Jackson. brent@hypercom.co.nz Phone : 64-9-3603593 Fax : 64-9-3602840