Hi, hackers !
Please find attached a work-in-progress patch adding a new feature to the Query Tool on top of updatable result-sets.
This patch allows individual columns of an updatable result-set to be editable or read-only. This allows for a wider variety of updatable result-sets, for example:
- Result-sets with duplicated columns.
- Result-sets with renamed columns (if a column is renamed to a primary key name, the real primary key can be correctly identified) .
- Result-sets including columns that are not selected directly from a table (e.g concatenation of 2 columns or system columns).
In the above cases, these columns would be read-only while other columns of the result-set are editable. Editable/Read-only columns are identified by icons and tooltips in the column header.
This is still a work-in-progress, updates to tests and documentation is still due. Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
Also, do you think the editable/read-only icons should apply in both View/Edit Data and Query Tool for consistency? or hidden from View/Edit Data as all columns are editable anyway?
Thanks.
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Yosry Muhammad Yosry
Computer Engineering student,
The Faculty of Engineering,
Cairo University (2021).
Class representative of CMP 2021.
