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Search results: Informix

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byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be ske...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

TS Rolling Window Containers dropping dormant window should be similar to DETACH FRAGMENT

When a dormant fragment is removed the data is gone for good, unless you manually unload to a new table or flat file. On large TS this is very time and disk restrictive. It is also hard to coordinate on embedded systems
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dropping Primary Keys

Allow the following syntax for dropping a primary key : alter table table-name drop primary key;
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add table name to -640 error.

Add tablename to -640 error.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Completely drop storage of all data and index partitions with truncate table command

I just truncated 2 huge tables, after "alter table extent size nnnn".. It took a while for the storage to come down to new extent size, but only table partition shrunk. Index partitions was unaffected, still huge.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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