Subject: Re: BUG: PGACCESS  does not warn when trying to update
From: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com>
To: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 08:29:56 -0700
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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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Brett Schwarz
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