Re: Synonyms to an SE database

Andy Kent wrote: > You are right, it is in fact clearly marked in the 7.2 version that > the remote stuff is only supported in "OL" (sic). > > Personally I think it's pretty lame and unhelpful to carve the manuals > up like this. Some means of making it more inclusive would have been > far more useful - and probably would have avoided this thread! It was done in the not wholly unreasonable expectation that SE would become less important - there were (and still are) no particular plans to extend it, so the 7.2x versions are unlikely to change. Of course, OnLine 5.x is still around... > Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote: >>Andy Kent wrote: >> >> >>>I'm not surprised we got misled. I just looked in the 7.3 Syntax Guide >>>for CREATE SYNONYM then followed the link to "Database Object Name" >>>and I can't see anything to suggest that remote synonyms are >>>IDS-specific. It's the same in the 9.4 manual too. >>> >>>Unless I'm missing something ... >> >>The only thing you're missing is (I think) that all the information in >>the 7.3 guide is only for IDS - there is no SE 7.3 version for it to >>apply to. >> >>I suspect you'd find no SE-only or not-SE marks anywhere in the syntax. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/