[Nottingham] Merging databases problem

[Martin]

Folks,

On another forum on this planet elsewhere there's a database merge 
hiccup. Any SQL/Informix experts have an idea for the following?


"The two databases are physically identical, just contain different 
data. The issue is that several fields are of user-defined type, which 
apparently don't just get copied with a SQL "insert into db1:table 
(x,y,z) select (x,y,z) from db2:table". Some really annoyingly long SQL 
may do the trick, except that these types contains lists of indefinite 
length, and from what we've experienced, if you screw up the transfer, 
you hose the *enter* table."

"The databases involved are both on the same server running informix."


(This is on Boinc-s at h that I run to soak up idle time.)

Regards,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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