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<p>This is a bit like Colonel Mustard in the Drawing room with the
ice pick</p>
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<p>Need some clues Marty. <br>
</p>
<p>help table? create time? what is in errlog.log, iidbms...log
around the time?<br>
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<p>Is the database and table journaled? Maybe run auditdb
-aborted_transactions near the create time.<br>
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<p>What is the state of the the extended table?</p>
<font face="monospace">select r1.relid as base_table, c.attname as
column_name, r2.relid as extend_table<br>
from iirelation r1,iirelation r2,iiattribute c,iiextended_relation
e<br>
where r1.reltid=e.etab_base and r2.reltid=e.etab_extension<br>
and r1.reltid=c.attrelid<br>
and c.attid=e.etab_attid<br>
and r1.reltidx=0<br>
and c.attrelidx=0</font><br>
<font face="monospace">where column_name = 'responses'</font><br>
<font face="monospace">order by base_table,column_name</font>
<p><font face="monospace">help table </font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace">(r2.relid from above)</font></font></p>
<p><font face="monospace"><font face="monospace"></font>select *
from iirelation where table_name = (r2.relid from above)<br>
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<p><font face="monospace">Paul</font></p>
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<p>On 18/06/2021 9:18 pm, Martin Bowes wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Knowing the
perverted nature of the user in question I wondered if he
had created the table from a distributed database via a
statement like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">direct execute
immediate ‘create table ztrans_symdig as select * from
symdig’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">with node =
‘…’, database =’…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So I set up a
test case and … nope, worked perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The user’s log
file had better be phenomenally good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Marty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="mso-fareast-language:JA" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="mso-fareast-language:JA" lang="EN-US"> Martin
Bowes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:martin.bowes@ndph.ox.ac.uk"><martin.bowes@ndph.ox.ac.uk></a>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 June 2021 11:25<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info-ingres@lists.planetingres.org">info-ingres@lists.planetingres.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Info-ingres] The column with no
datatype<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So one day I did…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">copydb -c -uoqs oqs_result_live
ztrans_symdig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">INGRES COPYDB Copyright 2016 Actian
Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">Unload directory is '/user/ingres'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">Reload directory is '/user/ingres'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">There are 0 sequences owned by user
'oqs'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">There is one table owned by user 'oqs'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">E_AD2003
ADF routine was passed an unknown datatype name.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘WTF!’ I thought to myself and after some
investigation….<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">select column_sequence, column_datatype<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">from iicolumns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">where table_name='ztrans_symdig' and
column_name = 'responses';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">┌───────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">│column_sequence│column_datatype
│<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">├───────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">│
18│ │<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">└───────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">(1 row)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How is that possible?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now iicolumns is a view and so I went back
to the iirelation and iiattribute tables:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">select varchar(r.relid, 13), attid,
varchar(attname, 13),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">a.attfrmt, a.attfrml,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">varchar(uppercase(iitypename(ii_ext_type(a.attfrmt,
a.attfrml))), 12) as datatype<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">from iiattribute a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif"> join iirelation r on a.attrelid =
r.reltid and a.attrelidx = r.reltidx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">where a.attname = 'responses'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">┌─────────────┬──────┬─────────────┬───────┬─────────────┬────────────┐<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">│col1 │attid │col3
│attfrmt│attfrml │datatype │<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">├─────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼────────────┤<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">│symdig │ 18│responses
│ 22│ 32│LONG VARCHAR│<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">│ztrans_symdig│ 18│responses
│ 36│ 16│ │<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">└─────────────┴──────┴─────────────┴───────┴─────────────┴────────────┘<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida
Console",serif">(2 rows)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m trying to track down how the user has
created this table and if they have a log of the activity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think the user is doing a create table
ztrans_symdig as select * from symdig where 1 = 0;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, when I try this the responses
column correctly becomes a long varchar without any problem.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marty<o:p></o:p></p>
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