Re: isql vs. dbaccess

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Fred G. Mackey wrote: > >> A couple people I work with swear that dbaccess has given different >> results from isql when given the same query. >> >> I've never heard of this and believe if it were the case it would have >> to be a bug. Apparently they believe isql was returning the correct >> results as they advise against using dbaccess. >> >> Has anyone ever heard of this? Was there a bug in dbaccess in an >> older version of Informix? > > > If there was a difference, it would indeed be a bug. > I wholeheartedly agree. > I don't recall hearing of such a problem, but that could be, in part, an > artefact of a flaky memory for the inconvenient. > I imagine if the bug ever existed at all, if it was as recent as 7.2x, you probably would have recalled it - maybe not, but I imagine so. I don't know for sure, but I would think that both are compiled to use the same function calls to query the database and thus it would very unlikely for there to be such a bug in one, but not the other.