Re: Change database mode online using onmode in Informix

Posted in 2005

Umberto — 8 Sep 2005 08:58:58 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

-u quiesce server, killing user threads -k stop at once So -k should override -u and stop, just like onmode -k, or not? -y overrides the usual questions (are you really sure? users will be killed...) IIRC, even -k performs a checkpoint and closes cleanly, it's not like "kill -9" (instead of Oracle's "shutdown abort", which kills without checkpoint). Oh well, indeed -yuk or -yuck sounds better... ;-)