Table of Contents Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS..............................................................................................................................1 Release Notes.......................................................................................................................................................2 June 2002.............................................................................................................................................................3 Contents...............................................................................................................................................................4 Preface..................................................................................................................................................................5 Purpose of This Manual.....................................................................................................................................6 Intended Audience..............................................................................................................................................7 Document Structure............................................................................................................................................8 Chapter 1Installing Oracle Rdb Release 7.0.6.4..............................................................................................9 1.1 Requirements...............................................................................................................................................10 1.2 Invoking VMSINSTAL..............................................................................................................................11 1.3 Stopping the Installation............................................................................................................................12 1.4 After Installing Oracle Rdb.......................................................................................................................13 1.5 Maximum OpenVMS Version Check Added...........................................................................................14 Chapter 2Software Errors Fixed in Oracle Rdb Release 7.0.6.4..................................................................15 2.1 Software Errors Fixed That Apply to All Interfaces...............................................................................16 2.1.1 Bugchecks Truncating Table in Mixed−Format Area With Row Caches....................................16 2.1.2 Page Locks Not Always Demoted When Blocking AST Delivered.............................................16 2.1.3 LRS Looping When Global Buffers Enabled...............................................................................16 2.1.4 Unresolved 2PC Transactions Rolled Back by RMU /RECOVER..............................................17 2.1.5 Bugchecks at PSII2SCANSTARTBBCSCAN.............................................................................17 2.1.6 Cursor on Ranked Index Returned too Many Records.................................................................18 2.1.7 Bugcheck at RDMS$$ALPHA$CONVERT_SORT+00000778..................................................18 2.1.8 Privileged User Bugcheck (ACCVIO)..........................................................................................19 2.1.9 RDMS$CREATE_LAREA_NOLOGGING Partly Ignored for Objects with Row Caches........19 2.1.10 Exception in RDMS$$KOD_ISCAN_GET_NEXT...................................................................19 2.1.11 Records Incorrectly Applied to a Key Entry with Sorted Ranked Index....................................21 2.1.12 Query With OR and Repeated AND Predicates Looped Forever...............................................21 2.1.13 Query With Same Column in Two Clauses Returns Wrong Results..........................................22 2.1.14 GROUP BY Query Followed by CASE With EXISTS Clause Returns Wrong Results...........24 2.1.15 Query With Join Predicates on Leading Segments and Equality Filters Returns Wrong Results...................................................................................................................................................25 2.1.16 Query With Transitive Join Predicates and Non−equality Filter Bugchecks.............................27 2.1.17 Query With OR Predicates Including Two Similar IS NULL Clauses Returns Wrong Results...................................................................................................................................................28 2.1.18 UNION Query With Constant Column Returns Wrong Results................................................30 2.1.19 Query With CAST Function Using Ranked Index Signals Exception Error..............................31 Table of Contents 2.1 Software Errors Fixed That Apply to All Interfaces 2.1.20 Incorrect Handling of Range List Retrieval in Optimizer..........................................................32 2.1.21 Bugchecks at DIOCCH$FETCH_SNAP_SEG + 00000594......................................................32 2.1.22 IVP Tests of DECC and VAXC..................................................................................................32 2.1.23 Left OJ Query Using Hash Retrieval Returns Wrong Results....................................................33 2.1.24 Getting Null Values Instead of Actual Values............................................................................34 2.2 SQL Errors Fixed.......................................................................................................................................36 2.2.1 ALTER DOMAIN...DROP DEFAULT Reports DEFVALUNS Error........................................36 2.2.2 Exception in Nested Routines Did Not Close Index Scans..........................................................36 2.2.3 DDL Statements Generated Unexpected Runtime Errors............................................................37 2.2.4 INSERT Cursor on a Derived Table Would Bugcheck................................................................37 2.2.5 SQL Query Bugchecks at SQL$$GET_QUEUE_WALK............................................................38 2.2.6 SQL Query Bugchecks at SQL$$GET_QUEUE_WALK............................................................38 2.2.7 Privileges Not Honored For SET TRANSACTION.....................................................................39 2.2.8 Multistatement Procedures Used with Connections Resulted in %RDB−E−OBSOLETE_METADA Error Message............................................................................40 2.2.9 Incorrect Handling of FOR Loop Select List Columns................................................................40 2.2.10 Unexpected Error on FOR Loop With Dialect ORACLE LEVEL1...........................................42 2.2.11 Unexpected Truncation of Data Assigned in Precompiled SQL................................................42 2.3 Oracle RMU Errors Fixed.........................................................................................................................44 2.3.1 RMU /VERIFY /ROOT Incorrectly Reports RMU−E−BADAIJPN and/or RMU−E−AIJNOTFND........................................................................................................................44 2.3.2 RMU /VERIFY Index Warnings Eliminated on Small Cardinality.............................................44 2.3.3 RMU /VERIFY /CONSTRAINT Now Uses Warning for CONSTFAIL Message.....................44 2.3.4 RMU Incremental Backup and Restore Could Cause Truncated Table Rows to Reappear.........45 2.3.5 Deleted Rows Reappear After RMU /REPAIR............................................................................45 2.3.6 RMU /COLLECT OPTIMIZER_STATISTICS Fails When Temporary Tables in Database.....45 2.3.7 RMU /BACKUP /LOADER_SYNCH and Usage of Tape Labels..............................................46 2.3.8 RMU /BACKUP to Tape can Hang on a Quit Response to a Prompt..........................................47 2.3.9 RMU /BACKUP to Tape can Hang When Terminating on Fatal Errors.....................................47 2.3.10 /LOG Qualifier Default for RMU /SET LOGMINER and RMU /SET ROW_CACHE............48 2.3.11 RMU /UNLOAD /AFTER_JOURNAL Exception in AIJEXT$FINISH...................................48 2.3.12 RMU /UNLOAD /AFTER_JOURNAL Wildcard Table Names...............................................48 2.3.13 RMU /UNLOAD /AFTER_JOURNAL AIJ Backup and Restart Information..........................48 2.3.14 Unexpected COSI−F−TRU Error from RMU Extract................................................................49 2.4 RMU Show Statistics Errors Fixed...........................................................................................................50 2.4.1 RMU /SHOW STATISTICS Triggers Invoked From User Defined Events at Times Other Than the Refresh Intervals....................................................................................................................50 2.4.2 RMU /SHOW STATISTICS Row Cache Information May Not Display the Information of the Cache Selected................................................................................................................................50 2.4.3 Inconsistency in the Hot Standby Statistics Screen of RMU /SHOW STATISTICS...................50 Chapter 3Software Errors Fixed in Oracle Rdb Release 7.0.6.3..................................................................51 3.1 Software Errors Fixed That