---------------------------------------------------------------------- ELOQUENCE B.08.20 - patch PE82-1410150 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This patch enhances or fixes defects of the dbrepack utility as released with Eloquence B.08.20. This patch will be integrated in the Eloquence B.08.20 release. Eloquence B.08.20 must be installed before applying this patch. Severity: PE82-1410150: BUG FIX Superseded patches: none Patch PE82-1410150 ------------------ Platforms: All * Fixed a defect that could result in dbrepack aborting with the message below (#4195): Assertion failed: new_recno != 0 panic: Aborting on internal failure, file quick_fill_gap.c, line 878 Depending on the number of records and deleted records one entry of the internal record map could become corrupted, resulting in a failed consistency test. * Improved dbrepack scalability on large databases. The dbrepack algorithm was refined to improve performance with large data sets. Platforms: Windows * A separate 64-bit build of the dbrepack64 utility is installed on 64-bit Windows systems. The 64-bit dbrepack64 utility is required to repack data sets that exceed 1.5 billion records. The 32-bit dbrepack utility may fail due to address space limitations. Platforms: HP-UX, Linux * The dbrepack utility is installed as a 64-bit binary on 64-bit systems. This allows repacking data sets that exceed 1.5 billion records. The 32-bit dbrepack utility may fail due to address space limitations. Installation: ------------- Please download the patch archive that corresponds with the installed release. The patch files follow the conventions below: PE82-1410150-hpux-ia64.tar.gz ^ ^ ^ | | Architecture / OS specific build | Operating system Patch ID HP-UX: In order to install this patch, you need to unpack it with gzip and tar. Gzip is included with HP-UX. Installation requires root privileges. cd /opt/eloquence/8.2 gzip -dc /path/to/PE82-1410150-hpux.tar.gz | tar xf - Files: bin/dbrepack share/doc/PE82-1410150-README Linux: In order to install this patch, you need to unpack it with tar. Installation requires root privileges. cd /opt/eloquence/8.2 tar xzf /path/to/PE82-1410150-linux.tar.gz Files: bin/dbrepack share/doc/PE82-1410150-README Windows: Two options are available for patch installation. The patch is available as self extracting archive for automatic installation and as a zip archive for manual installation. Both patches are equivalent. Installation requires administrative capabilities. For automatic installation of this patch, please download the patch file PE82-1410150-win32.exe. Before installation, please consider stopping the database server, then execute the patch installation program. Installation does not require a reboot unless the patched files were active. For a manual installation of the patch, please download the patch file PE82-1410150-win32.zip and unpack its contents. Then perform the following steps: * Please copy the dbrepack.exe file into the Eloquence bin directory. (Default location: C:\Program Files\Eloquence\8.2\bin) * Please copy the dbrepack64.exe file into the Eloquence bin64 directory. (Default location: C:\Program Files\Eloquence\8.2\bin64) * Please copy the PE82-1410150-README.txt file into the Eloquence share\doc directory. (Default location: C:\Program Files\Eloquence\8.2\share\doc) Files: dbrepack.exe dbrepack64.exe PE82-1410150-README.txt