Re: Informix: Dumb decision guys!

Posted in 1996

Kerry Sainsbury — Mon, 08 Apr 1996 21:28:43 +1200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thanks Rob and Sanjay. I'll try to re-raise this as a bug. - Kerry S In article <4k3r37$ms6@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, rob@dssmktg.com (Robert Minter) wrote: >* >* The following wee program illustrates that it's now perfectly reasonable >* to select CHAR columns into SMALLINT fields without an error: [ snip ] >* >* The above *might* be a bug, or it might be expected behaviour. >* Waddaya reckon? (This with 6.02.UC1 RDS) >* >* _______________________________________________________________________ >* >* I ran the above program in my environment 6.02 UC2 c-compiled version >* on DEC-Alpha. [ snip ] >It also works on our 6.01 RDS but fails on our 6.01 C-Code version. ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.4 Oct 95 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/