Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!pdn!yerneni From: yerneni@pdn.UUCP (Prasad Yerneni) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: large informix databases Keywords: informix, unix, large database Message-ID: <4477@pdn.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 88 18:00:40 GMT Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida Lines: 25 Hello, I would like to know if anyone has tackled the problem of an Informix2.3 database, on a SYSV machine, growing beyond the volume size of the partition that it is resident on. The informix manuals don't tell me what happens in such a case, and since Unix does not allow a file to be split between volumes is there any ingenious method that someone has tried to overcome this problem? We currently use Informix only as a database manager, with our own user interface to it. This suggests that the database could be split into two or more databases resident on different volumes. However, any manipulation of data using inter-relationships between those databases would have to be taken care by user written software. Has anyone done this, and what should I watch out for. Or is there a better way? NOTE: I know that Unify can share data between volumes but given its inflexibility with respect to any schema change (takes hours to just change the name of an attribute!!), and other considerations, it looks like we are stuck with Informix for the moment. Prasad.