Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mstar!equicom!john From: john@Equi.com (John J. Ackley) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Informix upgrades Message-ID: <1991Feb2.200754.1320@Equi.com> Date: 2 Feb 91 20:07:54 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Equicom Communications, Inc. Lines: 22 In article ahl@technix.oz.au (Tony Landells) writes: >I'm currently using the .03 release of Informix, and at some stage >we'll probably upgrade to the 4.0 release. Is there any sort of >upgrade guide available? (You know... "The following are now >keywords, change all variables with these names to something else." >and so forth). > >Thanks, >Tony. We upgraded from .03 to 4.0 a few months ago. The Turbo/On-Line conversion was rather involved because our release of "tbcheck" was broken. But all the 4GL code simply need recompiled. One keyword clash we encountered was "sitename": a column with that name was automatically renamed to "name_site" when "dbreload"ed. However, ESQL/C 4.0 has a new pre-processor with new directives and two kinds of file inclusion. This was a major annoyance, but after the code was fixed, the preprocessor allows greater flexibility. -- John Ackley // The usual disclaimer stuff