Re: upgrade opinions?

"Milton J. Vidrine, Jr." wrote: > One "oddity" that took us a while to get sorted out is that you need to set > the environment variable "LRUAGE=1" when bringing up the engine. If you > don't do this, B-tree pages will end up crowding Data pages out of your > buffers, and performance will be abysmal. I understand that this is fixed in > 7.31.UC7. > > Another "oddity" is that creating a table in the sysmaster database at > checkpoint time (even a temp table) could cause the engine to hang. The only > way to cure this is to reboot the server. More to the point, you will not be > able to use such database monitoring tools as BMC's PATROL, as it does > "group by" and "order by" as it queries sysmaster. This is fixed in > 7.31.UC6. > > Interesting - I run Patrol against a 7.31.uc3 server and have no problems at > all. > > These are the only two "oddities" that immediately come to mind, as we have > had direct experience with them. > > Joe Vidrine > Garden Ridge, Inc. > > "bob" <bob@null.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.13d6a882479bfff7989689@news.dbn.lia.net... > > Morning All, > > > > now I really feel like a newbie, but I just discovered a copy of > > 7.31.UC4-1 which got delivered but no-one told me about. > > > > currently we run 7.20.UD7 dev tools (4gl, isql etc) on 7.24.UC6 > > engine. Now we have the engine for 7.31 and would like to upgrade > > our copy. > > > > Does anyone know if the dev tools will still be able to talk > > to this engine? Add to that any oddities I should know about? > > > > brett