>>>>> "DJD" == Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DJD> Fully functioning engine in soft upgrade mode, except for the new
DJD> features that would leave persistent data that would not be understood
DJD> by an older release. For 10.1 that would be SYNONYMS etc.
DJD> Ie. multi-user, read/write. The intention is that applications can try
DJD> out the new engine version with no changes and see if it fixes bugs or
DJD> improves (or degrades) performance.
Is there any performance impact of doing soft-upgrade? That is, does
it imply data conversion from/to old data format, or is this avoided
by making the class loading dependent on the data format?
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Øystein