From: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com>
To: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG: PGACCESS does not warn when trying to update
Date: 15 Aug 2002 08:29:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1029425397.1824.510.camel@thor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D5BD2E4.A7F1F769@nsd.ca>
References: <20020405083629.6a97dcde.dbr@informactis.com>
<24205.1018020022@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<3D5AD9BF.F127D21A@nsd.ca>
<200208142339.TAA10893@beamish.nsd.ca>
<3D5BD2E4.A7F1F769@nsd.ca>
You are correct. Looking at the code a bit, it looks like it does the
Right Thing when inserting a new record, but does not do the same for
updating a record.
Can you file a bug so that this can get tracked properly?
http://bugzilla.pgaccess.org
thanks,
--brett
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 09:12, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> But,
>
> When a record is updated with PgAccess, the least that it should do is
> check the return status of the update to find that the record no longer
> exists and warn the user!!!
>
> JLL
>
> terry wrote:
> >
> > Actually, M$ Access does the same thing. When a form (or query)
> > is populated with the contents of a record, it no longer is
> > changed within the database - only within the form (or query).
> > It is only when the record is saved that there is any indication
> > of change or deletion. The only way to determine if the record
> > in the form (or query) has been changed or deleted is to check
> > that record in the database during the operation, which is not
> > routinely done.
> >
> > >> DARN!!!
> > >>
> > >> I have just wasted half a day updating record with PcAccess.
> > >>
> > >> If one is updating a record that was deleted by someone else,
> > >> PgAccess does not warn that the record no longer exists and
> > >> silently accept the update.
> > >>
> > >> Then, if the list is refreshed, the record is gone!!!
> > >>
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> >
> > --
> >
> > terry
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