>>>
> >>> Is anybody over at the dev team considering what an onerous burden
> >>> this is? Is anyone considering doing away with it?
Just my 2 cents:
more and more databases have to run 24 * 7 , so something has to be done.
The last 15 years we also used Informix and we never, never had to unload/load
the database because of an upgrade.
Perhaps somebody knows how they do the trick?
Regards
Henk Sanders