RE: Question

> Arnel CUETO ha scritto nel messaggio > <9583jm$pfq$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > > > >--------------C064AA6EE2CF3D83DF1E7337 > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >Hello all, > > > > We have set-up, and are currently testing, our Informix > >High-Availabilty Data Replication using two servers (primary and > >secondary). So far, we have successfully tested creating dbspaces, > >databases, loading and updating data. However, we cannot seem to > >replicate BLOBS from our primary to our secondary server. > Informix books > >explain that "modifications to data within blobspaces are > not replicated > >as part of normal high availability data-replication processing. Only > >TEXT or BYTE data within dbspaces is replicated". We would > like to know > >if there is a work-around to this limitation and if there is none, is > >there another method to replicate these databases to another server? > >BTW, we are using Informix version 7.30 and 7.31. > > > > very STRANGE: AFAIK BLOB datatype (also called "smartblob") > is available > only in IDS9.21 and, in that case, there seem to be NO WORKAROUND (as > written in the release notes) Hmmm, I was using BLOBS in V4 back in the dark ages, OK they were only stupid blobs, but they were there Paul Watson

In article <959j2e$as8$1@news.xmission.com>, Paul Watson <pwatson@silicon.com> wrote: > > > Arnel CUETO ha scritto nel messaggio > > <9583jm$pfq$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > > > > > > >--------------C064AA6EE2CF3D83DF1E7337 > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > > >Hello all, > > > > > > We have set-up, and are currently testing, our Informix > > >High-Availabilty Data Replication using two servers (primary and > > >secondary). So far, we have successfully tested creating dbspaces, > > >databases, loading and updating data. However, we cannot seem to > > >replicate BLOBS from our primary to our secondary server. > > Informix books > > >explain that "modifications to data within blobspaces are > > not replicated > > >as part of normal high availability data-replication processing. Only > > >TEXT or BYTE data within dbspaces is replicated". We would > > like to know > > >if there is a work-around to this limitation and if there is none, is > > >there another method to replicate these databases to another server? > > >BTW, we are using Informix version 7.30 and 7.31. > > > > > > > very STRANGE: AFAIK BLOB datatype (also called "smartblob") > > is available > > only in IDS9.21 and, in that case, there seem to be NO WORKAROUND (as > > written in the release notes) > > Hmmm, I was using BLOBS in V4 back in the dark ages, OK they were > only stupid blobs, but they were there > > Paul Watson > I guess I though all blobs were stupid, every time I work with them, I find myself mumbling stupid blobs :) Will Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/