From: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
To: Valerio Santinelli <tanis@mediacom.it>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] ODBC Locking troubles
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:24:58 -0500
Message-ID: <36B5B93A.3B295B77@insightdist.com> (raw)
References: <36B5B363.D8082D12@mediacom.it>
Valerio Santinelli wrote:
> I'm still messing around with MSAccess as interface for my PostgreSQL
> database and I've found out something interesting.
>
> When trying to access some data to update in a simple table (just a
> serial and 4 columns of various types) I noticed that when I try to do
> an update on any of the records from a form or directly from the table,
> MSAccess is saying that another user is locking that record and cannot
> update it. Obviously that's not true since that's the only task
> accessing the database right now.
>
Check the "Use Declare/Fetch" option under the odbc driver options (Advanced
Options/Driver). If it is enabled, turn it off. Until we have the MVCC
locking, there is always a potential for problems with this option enabled.
> Now I'm thinking it's an ODBC problem and I should update some drivers
> on my work's machine but I already tried installing the new DAO and ODBC
> stuff from Visual Studio 6 Suite but nothing changed. Any idea ? Anybody
> happened to notice this strange behaviour ?
>
It never hurts to make sure you have the latest odbc driver
(http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc).
Byron
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