"Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> : I don't have Office 2000, but I can confirm Access 97 generates such
>> : queries. The query-builder doesn't generate the 'key = NULL' query,
>> : but the use of the Forms interface does.
> As someone who develops professionally for MSAccess<->ODBC Servers
> (PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server) I'd say that we can ignore this. There
> are a *lot* of circumstances where the "Filter by Form" interface breaks
> down; I don't think that it works properly with MS SQL Server 7.0,
> either.
This is an interesting comment. Does anyone else want to confirm or
refute it? If Access' forms interface is so badly broken that few
people use it anyway, then I'd say that we should not break standards
compatibility just to support it.
regards, tom lane
