Re: BUG: PGACCESS does not warn when trying to update

Well in my applications, we routinly check the availabiliy of the record
priod to an update operation as a matter of course.

We come from the old days of CISAM...<GRIN>

--Hal.

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, 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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