Hello,
We have the following setup to replicate between dataservers srv_a and srv_b (using repservers rep_a and rep_b) :
-) replication : srv_a <---> rep_a <---> rep_b <----> srv_b
-) bidirectional-replication using msa : having database replication definitions and database subscriptions on both sites (i.e. in both directions)
-) used as active/passive system with srv_b being the active server.
srv_a is ASE 12.5.4 (solaris sparc/2K pages), srv_b is ASE 15.7 (solaris intel/4K pages).
I want to upgrade srv_a to ASE 15.7.
Here is what I did :
-) create a new 15.7 server, define the databases, load a dump of srv_b into it, disabled the replication agents.
-) drop database subscriptions in both directions.
-) stop srv_a, rename and restart the new sever iwth name srv_a.
for each database :
-) create a database subscription from b to a using dump marker
-) dump database on srv_b and load on srv_a.
the dump contains the replication configuration of srv_b, so this has to be changed in the settings of srv_a :
-) sp_config_rep_agent $db, 'connect dataserver', 'srv_a'
-) sp_config_rep_agent $db, 'rs servername', 'rep_a'
-) dbcc settrunc('ltm', 'ignore')
-) dbcc settrunc('ltm', 'valid')
-) dbcc settrunc('ltm', 'end')
and in rssd_db of rep_a :
-) rs_zeroltm srv_a, $db
-) then start the repagent, and resume the connection.
-) finally, create a database subscription from a to b.
The result is that replication from b to a is working fine (which is good because that's from active to passive),
but replication from a to b isn't.
I used sysadmin dump_queue to see what 's in the stable queue, and it seems that transactions on srv_a don't make it to the stable queue.
When reading the documentation, I came across the description of generation numbers.
Normally it's increased to avoid that after restoring a primary database, transactions are considered
to be duplicates.
The Duplicates column in the output of admin who, sqm is increasing.
Since I couldn't find what was causing the problem, I thought of giving setting the generation number a try, and added :
-) dbcc settrunc('ltm', 'gen_id', 1)
after the settrunc('ltm', 'ignore') command in the description above.
When I did that, replication from srv_a to srv_b started to work.
I don't understand why this is happening, and why transactions are considered as duplicates.
I also want to avoid increasing the generation number, is there a solution without doing this ?
Thanks,
Luc.