Re: Rolling back transactions
Posted in 1997
Nils Myklebust — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
chaiw@ibm.net (Chaiw Kok Kee) wrote:
:We have always set our test environment log tape device to /dev/null. But
:occasionally, the logical logs still get full and the system crashes. Is it
:true that tbtape -c must be run to flush the log to /dev/null.
No, you need no tbtape or ontape. It's automatic when the log tape
device is set to /dev/null. However you could still get a long
transaction if the log space is too small. You would have to increase
the number of logs (or their size) to avoid this.
Nils.Myklebust@idg.no
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