For some strange reason, using an OID in a WHERE clause no longer
works in 7.0.2. It did in 6.5.3 Here is an example psql session:
ome=# create table foo (bar integer);
CREATE
ome=# insert into foo values (123);
INSERT 29225 1
ome=# select bar from foo where oid=29225;
ERROR: getattproperties: no attribute tuple 29216 -2
ome=# select oid,bar from foo;
oid | bar
-------+-----
29225 | 123
(1 row)
This is broken in psql, Pg.pm, and PsqlODBC. The error in the ODBC
driver essentially breaks Excel/MS Query access to PostgreSQL. It is
possible to bypass the error by issuing a select statement directly
from MS Query - the GUI tool from Excel no longer works, though.
This is a long-winded way of saying that PsqlODBC actually works with
7.0.2 - except for this error.
The number after the tuple in the error seems to be table-specific -
it remains the same whatever oid you are querying - even a
non-existing one.
I submitted a bug report to the database also - wasn't sure of the
preferred method. Sorry if you are getting a duplicate.
PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95.2
Installed via RPMs from your FTP site.
-Ilya Goldberg.
