Re: Upgrade from 5 to 7

David Williams (djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk) wrote: >Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 03:15:00 +0100 >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.37162> > >Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) writes: >>Paul Mosser (pmosser@primenet.com) asks: >>>Date: 25 Apr 1997 07:49:02 -0700 >>>X-Informix-List-Id: <news.37130> >>> >>>[...3 levels of embedded message removed...] >>> >>>I have heard that the "notfound" syntax (as in 'if status=notfound...') is >>>no longer valid in 6.x. Can anyone confirm / refute that??? >> >>Consider it refuted! >>[...refutation removed...] > > Using 4GL 6.00 on an SCO 3.2.4cv2 box status=notfound always returns > false even when no rows are found!!! 6.03 fixes this bug.... If this was a real bug (and I have no reason to dispute it, though I find it difficult to believe that it escaped QA testing), it is different from the question which I was answering. The question is about the *syntax*; the syntax is still valid, even though the resulting behaviour is wrong. And assuming that the bug really happened on the SCO platform quoted, it would have been a major problem indeed. I'd also be very surprised indeed if it was not fixed considerably prior to the 6.03 release -- I would have expected a 6.00.UF1 or thereabouts maintenance release to fix the 6.00.UE1 problem. (If the 6.00 version was earlier than 6.00.UE1, then it was a pre-release that should not have been in use one the 6.00.UE1 release was made.) I'm probably nit-picking unnecessarily. Yours pedantically, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>