Re: Extents Overlap

Posted in 1996

Billy Wheeler — 17 Jul 1996 02:53:23 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> > We ran the TBCheck -ce and got the error message: > > ERROR extents overlap. > > TBCheck -pe helped us identify the Chunk and therefore the DBSpace (thanks to > Joe Lumbley and his fine survival guide. > > Perhaps in panic mode we overlooked it in our administrators guide, but we > could not find anything in our fine manual. Anyone know just how bad this is, > and is the fix to unload, drop, recreate and reload the tables in that chunk? > Are you guys running SAP, perchance? :) As far as I'm aware, the above two points are correct: 1) it's not in TFM, 2) unload drop, recreate and reload will fix it. Doubtlessly someone else will prove me wrong... :-) However, there are some versions of Informix (particularly V6.x supplied by SAP) where this is a spurious error message and can be ignored. HTH. -- Ciao, Billy +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Billy Wheeler Director The West Solutions Group | | | | (E) billy@west.co.za (U) http://www.west.co.za/billy.html | | (W) +27 11 803 2151 (F) +27 11 803 2189 | | (C) +27 83 250 2324 (H) You must be joking! | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+