Re: Down-grading :-) 5.05 -> 5.02

Paul Mahoney (ptm@xact.demon.co.uk) wrote: : We have a large (5G) database (Online) that we recently upgraded to version : 5.05. This version appears to have a number of serious problems (on SCO at : least). Is it safe simply to change back to the 5.02 binaries? All I can get : from Informix support is the bland statement: : "You must dbexport and re-import" No, you don't have to dbexport and import. Going between maintenance releases on a single major release is usually fine (eg. 5.01 to 5.06, or vice versa). The only exception to this that I know of is the 7.1x family, where there was a change to the checkpoint structure in 7.10.UD1, which means that you cannot simply go back to the 7.10.UC1 binaries - you must convert the checkpoint in order to revert. But you can do this with an onmode command, so you still don't have to dbexport. Still, I don't recommend going back to 5.02. As someone has already said, I would recommend thrashing out your problems with 5.05 (or 5.06, or 5.07...). June ---- June Tong Informix Software ---- ---- Senior Consultant (415) 926-6140 ---- ---- International Support junet@informix.com ---- ---- Location-du-jour: Menlo Park ----