Results from testing RC2, rev: 5607:5627M

Hi developers! Hi Dave!

Dave, I have tested the new version you sent me. RC2, rev: 5607:5627M.
(5627M?)

- No crashes or anything major sighted in two hours of testing (mainly
edit grid).

- You have definitely improved the handling of timestamps, dates and
intervals. Copy & paste is much more convenient now, as you don't have
to worry about linebreak proliferation.
If this blessing could be extended to text types one day, then halleluja. :)

- Starting new lines by inserting data is now less confusing, the new
dialogue prevents data loss. And the option to cancel the operation is a
major improvement. That's the one I will be using 99% of the time.
The current way of handling cursor and selection will remain prone to
errors and cornercases, though.

- The undead "undo" issue:
The save dialogue pops up, even if there is no data to save, even if I
did not enter edit mode in the row of the cursor at all, or if I set the
cursor on the "new" row. This isn't dangerous, but confusing.
If I answer yes to the uncalled-for save dialogue, then the rest of the
operation seems to be aborted (nothing happens).

When I tried all of this with another table, the phenomenon was gone. I
think I found the reason, finally:
The undo button gets activated as soon as I enter edit mode. (We have
been discussing this before.) If I do not change anything and leave the
field, undo button stays activated. Even if I set the cursor on another
row (no unsaved changes could be pending still). This will provoke the
above problems. Pressing the undo buton or <ctrl><z>, achieves nothing
but the reset of the undo button. After that, the above mentioned
problems are gone, until undo gets activated once more.
Interestingly, if I actually change data, then the changes are saved, as
soon as I set the cursor on another row, and the undo button is
deactivated. Obviously the undo button waits for a save to occur or the
changes to be undone, but if it has been activated without any changes
having been made, it will wait forever.

- While experimenting with pasting, I pasted the dummy text 'asdfg' to
an integer column and saved - which produced an error as expected. The
nature of the error was a bit of a surprise though:

An error has occurred:
FEHLER: Spalte >>asdfg<< existiert nicht.

Meaning: "Error: Column >>asdfg<< does not exist."
Somehow data is being mistaken for a column name. This could possibly
lead to grave errors. (Or is it the German translation wrong?)

In my test-case it was the primary key and first column. See appended
definition, if you need.

Regards
Erwin

P.S.: For reference (in case you need it, maybe you don't), the
definition of the table I utilized for testing. Quickly derived &
simplified from a real table I use.

Table dumped with this command line (I have a "test" db-cluster on port
5433):
pg_dump -p 5433 -f /var/lib/postgres/dev/test.sql -n cp -t test event

--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--

SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
SET check_function_bodies = false;
SET client_min_messages = warning;

SET search_path = cp, pg_catalog;

SET default_tablespace = '';

SET default_with_oids = false;

--
-- Name: test; Type: TABLE; Schema: cp; Owner: postgres; Tablespace:
--

CREATE TABLE test (
feld_id serial NOT NULL,
tabelle text DEFAULT '?'::text NOT NULL,
feld text DEFAULT '?'::text NOT NULL,
flabel text,
sprechend boolean DEFAULT true NOT NULL,
note text,
log_up timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
log_upby integer NOT NULL,
ex boolean DEFAULT false NOT NULL,
extime timestamp without time zone,
tlabel text DEFAULT '?'::text NOT NULL,
frang integer DEFAULT 10 NOT NULL,
trang integer DEFAULT 10 NOT NULL
);

ALTER TABLE cp.test OWNER TO postgres;

--
-- Name: test_feld_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema: cp; Owner: postgres
--

SELECT pg_catalog.setval(pg_catalog.pg_get_serial_sequence('test',
'feld_id'), 1, false);

--
-- Data for Name: test; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: cp; Owner: postgres
--

COPY test (feld_id, tabelle, feld, flabel, sprechend, note, log_up,
log_upby, ex, extime, tlabel, frang, trang) FROM stdin;
502 adrkey keytyp_id Typ f Nummern-Typ 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1
f \N Zusatznummer 50 50
111 firma uid UID t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Firma 10 10
206 adr adrform_id Adressformat f \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f
\N Adresse 20 20
405 adrkat fixbearb_id id der Transaktion t \N 2006-08-08
20:39:59 1 f \N Zusatzbranche 40 40
704 firmaintern inseratvor07 Anzeigenkunde vor 07 t \N 2006-07-06
18:14:02 1 f \N Interne Daten 70 70
702 firmaintern dotcopy .copy t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Interne Daten 70 70
701 firmaintern note Notiz t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Interne Daten 70 70
103 firma vorbis Vorreihung t Firma wird bei Suchergebnissen im
Web bis zu diesem Datum vorgereiht. 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Firma 10 10
404 adrkat fixbis Fix bis t Erscheinen fixiert bis zu dieser
Ausgabe 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Zusatzbranche 40 40
403 adrkat kattxt Branchen-Text t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f
\N Zusatzbranche 40 40
406 adrkat hervorbis Hervorhebung bis t Hervorhebung der Branche
im Buch bis zu dieser Ausgabe. 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Zusatzbranche 40 40
504 adrkey hinweis Hinweis t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Zusatznummer 50 50
503 adrkey wert Nummer t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Zusatznummer 50 50
608 kontakt haupt Hauptkontakt t Es kann nur einen geben!
2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Kontakt 60 60
607 kontakt email E-Mail t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Kontakt 60 60
606 kontakt tel Telefon t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Kontakt 60 60
604 kontakt vorname Vorname t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Kontakt 60 60
602 kontakt anrede Anrede t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Kontakt 60 60
110 firma exby Ausgeschieden durch f \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f
\N Firma 10 10
109 firma extime Zeitpunkt des Ausscheidens t \N 2006-07-06
18:14:02 1 f \N Firma 10 10
108 firma ex Karteileiche t Angehakt für Karteileichen 2006-07-06
18:14:02 1 f \N Firma 10 10
107 firma valtime Freigabezeitpunkt t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f
\N Firma 10 10
106 firma valby Freigabe durch f \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Firma 10 10
105 firma val Freigabe t Firma ist für Verwendung in Web & Buch
frei gegeben. 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Firma 10 10
101 firma firma Name t Firmenbezeichnung 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f
\N Firma 10 10
204 adr hausnr Hausnummer t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Adresse 20 20
203 adr str_id Straße/Adresse f Straße, PLZ, Ort, Land
2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse 20 20
202 adr adr Bezeichnung t Bezeichnung der Niederlassung /
Zusatzadresse 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse 20 20
210 adr email Email t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse 20 20
209 adr fax Fax t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse 20 20
208 adr tel Telefon t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse
20 20
205 adr adrzusatz Adresszusatz t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f
\N Adresse 20 20
207 adr str_unclear Str.-Schreibweise unklar t Schreibweise der
Straße unklar. 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse 20 20
100 firma firma_id \N t Alle prim. keys sollen eigentlich nicht in
der Maske dargestellt werden, "id" sollte nirgendwo sichtbar
aufscheinen. 2006-07-06 18
200 adr adr_id \N t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:31 1 f \N Adresse 18 20
201 adr firma_id \N t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:35 1 f \N Adresse 19 20
400 adrkat adrkat_id \N t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:39 1 f \N
Zusatzbranche 38 40
401 adrkat adr_id \N t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:42 1 f \N
Zusatzbranche 39 40
500 adrkey adrkey_id !Sonderfall! Siehe cp.f_firma_wannachange!
f \N 2006-07-06 18:14:44 1 f \N Zusatznummer 48 50
501 adrkey adr_id !Sonderfall! Siehe cp.f_firma_wannachange! f
!ACHTUNG! Sonderfall Zusatznummer zu Zusatzadresse. 2006-07-06
18:14:49 1 f \N Z
700 firmaintern firma_id \N t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:55 1 f \N
Interne Daten 69 70
600 kontakt kontakt_id \N t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:58 1 f \N
Kontakt 58 60
703 firmaintern webinsert ?Webgrafik? t ?Feld löschen? 2006-07-14
18:03:21 1 f \N Interne Daten 70 70
705 firmaintern wiedervorlage Wiedervorlage t !ACHTUNG! feld_id =
705 hardcoded in Trigger cp.trg_c_insbef() 2006-07-11 18:37:56 1 f \N
Interne Daten
211 adr www Homepage t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse
20 20
212 adr isdn ISDN t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N Adresse 20 20
250 adr kat_id Branche f \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Hauptbranche 30 30
251 adr kattxt Branchen-Text t \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Hauptbranche 30 30
252 adr hervorbis Hervorhebung bis t Im Buch wird Branche
zuletzt in dieser Nummer hervorgehoben. 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Hauptbranche 30 3
402 adrkat kat_id Branche f \N 2006-07-06 18:14:02 1 f \N
Zusatzbranche 40 40
253 adr hervorbearb_id id der Transaktion t \N 2006-08-08
17:25:13 1 f \N Hauptbranche 30 30
407 adrkat hervorbearb_id id der Transaktion t \N 2006-08-08
17:25:19 1 f \N Zusatzbranche 40 40
102 firma fzusatz Zusatzname t Zusatz zum Firmennamen 2006-11-13
20:49:13 1 f 2006-11-06 18:14:02 Firma 10 10
104 firma vorbearb_id id der Transaktion t \N 2006-11-13 20:49:27
1 f 2006-11-06 18:14:02 Firma 10 10
\.

--
-- Name: test_pkey; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: cp; Owner: postgres;
Tablespace:
--

ALTER TABLE ONLY test
ADD CONSTRAINT test_pkey PRIMARY KEY (feld_id);

--
-- Name: test_uni; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: cp; Owner: postgres;
Tablespace:
--

ALTER TABLE ONLY test
ADD CONSTRAINT test_uni UNIQUE (tabelle, feld);

--
-- PostgreSQL database dump complete
--