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- The new ingres version 8 system has a number of changes and enhancments
- over the version 7 system. However, the databases that were made with
- the old system are NOT compatible with the new system. However, there
- exists a program that will convert version 7 databases into version 8
- databases. You will need your 4.2 binaries to use the conversion
- utility. You should have moved your old bin directory to bin7 before
- this distribution tape was loaded. If not you will have to restore
- those binaries from your system dumps. Once the bin7 directory is in
- place, you should check that all the 'proctab7' files in the files
- directory has the line:
- DB:$P/bin
- changed to
- DB:$P/bin7
-
- The system administrator should then do the following to convert all
- the databases.
-
- % su ingres
- % cd ~ingres/data/base
- % mv READ_ME .READ_ME
- % foreach j (*)
- ? ~ingres/bin/ingconv -s $j
- ?end
- % mv .READ_ME READ_ME
-
- That will convert all the normal databases on a machine. However,
- ingconv does not work with indirect files. It is suggested you change
- them into symbolic links before running ingconv on them. If you don't
- know what an indirect file is, you probably aren't using them.
-