INFORMIX SERVER / 5725A3900 / E10 - 

Physically restoring an instance from a non-whole-system backup
(no -w) will result in a system without any usable logical log
files, all existing log files will have a zero unique id and no
usable content, and the various dbspaces/sbspaces in the system
might represent states of vastly different checkpoints,
potentially many logical logs apart from each other.

When now using such physically restored system for instantiating
a secondary server (running 'onmode -d secondary/RSS
' on this), the list of required log files will be
determined from archive checkpoint information of all the spaces
in the system, with some spaces needing older logs, others only
later ones. Those logs will be retrieved from primary (or log.
log backup) and applied to the system, with log records from
older logs pertaining to spaces only requiring later logs being
skipped based on spaces' ds_logid/ds_logpos information.
This skipping, though, will only work as long as the server
remains online since that initial instantiation; should the
secondary be restarted before reaching the highest of those
ds_logid/ds_logpos LSNs, any log records older than that LSN of
the space they correspond to will no longer be skipped which, as
they're old and their actions long applied to the space, can
lead to all kinds of log recovery failures.

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* USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
* Users of Informix Server prior to 14.10.xC5.                 *
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
* See Error Description                                        *
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* RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
* Update to Informix Server 14.10.xC5.                         *
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Avoid the problem by not shutting down a secondary before it
reached the latest archive checkpoint of all spaces in the
system.

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* USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
* Users of Informix Server prior to 14.10.xC5.                 *
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
* See Error Description                                        *
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* RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
* Update to Informix Server 14.10.xC5.                         *
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Fixed in Informix Server 14.10.xC5.

Date  - problem reported    :
Date  - problem closed      :
Date  - last modified       :

17.09.2020
09.12.2020
09.12.2020