RE: Set Explain

Posted in 1997

CSC CIS — 10 Feb 1997 12:43:20 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Try creating a function which is called from all the programs at startup = and which checks the value of an environment variable and turns SET = EXPLAIN ON. The programmer should turn on the variable during testing, = and the production environment should have this turned off. We do this = here and it works. Sujit Pal ---------- From: D. Wilson[SMTP:dgwilson@gte.net] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 1997 12:00 AM To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu Subject: Re: Set Explain jrichard@mail.ci.aurora.co.us wrote: >=20 > We have programmers who are sending code to production with set > explains still in the code. Since we get binaries, we have trying to > figure out a way to stop the set explains from executing and creating > gigantic files. Any ideas??? Fire the programmers? Douglas Wilson ** My opinions are not those of .... a complete idiot :)