Re: Problems with Access XP and text primary keys

Is this just me?

"Ben Trewern" <bendottrewern(at)mowlem(dot)com> wrote in message
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> I've been using Postgres 8.0rc5 with the pgsqlODBC 8.00.00.03 driver and
> am having some problems.
>
> The database works correctly for some time but suddenly and for no reason
> I can find I get #Deleted in some of the fields. These tables seem to be
> those which have text primary keys. I've looked at the psqlodbcXXXX.log
> and it seems that I get:
>
> conn=162845400, query='SELECT "mw"."users"."user_name" FROM "mw"."users" '
> [ fetched 13 rows ]
>
> conn=162845400, query='SELECT
> "user_name","entered_ts","entered_user","last_changed","last_user","full_name","area_id","xmin"
> FROM "mw"."users" WHERE "user_name" = 'b' OR "user_name" = 'c' OR
> "user_name" = 'm' OR "user_name" = 'b' OR "user_name" = 'p' OR "user_name"
> = 't' OR "user_name" = 'j' OR "user_name" = 'r' OR "user_name" = 'f' OR
> "user_name" = 'j''
> [ fetched 0 rows ]
>
> conn=162845400, query='SELECT
> "user_name","entered_ts","entered_user","last_changed","last_user","full_name","area_id","xmin"
> FROM "mw"."users" WHERE "user_name" = 'p' OR "user_name" = 'p' OR
> "user_name" = 'j' OR "user_name" = 'j' OR "user_name" = 'j' OR "user_name"
> = 'j' OR "user_name" = 'j' OR "user_name" = 'j' OR "user_name" = 'j' OR
> "user_name" = 'j''
> [ fetched 0 rows ]
>
> instead of when working correctly:
>
> conn=170998744, query='SELECT "mw"."users"."user_name" FROM "mw"."users" '
> [ fetched 13 rows ]
>
> conn=170998744, query='SELECT
> "user_name","entered_ts","entered_user","last_changed","last_user","full_name","area_id","xmin"
> FROM "mw"."users" WHERE "user_name" = 'btrewern' OR "user_name" =
> 'chappellj' OR "user_name" = 'mcwilliamsf' OR "user_name" = 'ben' OR
> "user_name" = 'postgres' OR "user_name" = 'timc' OR "user_name" = 'jasonc'
> OR "user_name" = 'robh' OR "user_name" = 'francism' OR "user_name" =
> 'janeh''
> [ fetched 10 rows ]
>
> conn=170998744, query='SELECT
> "user_name","entered_ts","entered_user","last_changed","last_user","full_name","area_id","xmin"
> FROM "mw"."users" WHERE "user_name" = 'pons_temp' OR "user_name" = 'pauls'
> OR "user_name" = 'jeremyw' OR "user_name" = 'jeremyw' OR "user_name" =
> 'jeremyw' OR "user_name" = 'jeremyw' OR "user_name" = 'jeremyw' OR
> "user_name" = 'jeremyw' OR "user_name" = 'jeremyw' OR "user_name" =
> 'jeremyw''
> [ fetched 3 rows ]
>
> The table "mw"."users" is created as:
>
> CREATE TABLE users
> (
> user_name short_text_dom PRIMARY KEY,
> entered_ts timestamp DEFAULT ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone,
> entered_user short_text_dom DEFAULT "current_user"(),
> last_changed timestamp,
> last_user short_text_dom,
> full_name text,
> area_id int4 NOT NULL
> );
>
> and
>
> "mw"."short_text_dom" is:
>
> CREATE DOMAIN short_text_dom
> AS varchar(250);
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben Trewern
>