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Strange error accessing *views* from Linux through ODBC

From
Emmanuel Charpentier
Date:
Dear list,

Due to a problem related to updates of views through rules, I bit the
bullet and installed Pg 7.3.1. I use Debian (mostly Woody, a. k. a. stable)
; after some attempts to install the Woody version, I installed the sid
versions.

 From Windows (I'm using OpenOffice to access a Linux PostgreSQL database
through the experimental ODBC3 drive, Dec 17 2002 version), nothing has
changed : I still can't update a view (I thought the problem I had might be
related to 7.2 not returning the number of rows updated). More on this
later, after I have time to create a log ...

 From Linux (Same setup, using the official ODBC driver as packaged by
Oliver Elphick for Debian Sid, a. k. a. unstable along with unixodbc), I
can access tables, but no views. When I try to use a view, OpenAccess
returns me an error message box asserting that "Can't update data contents.
[unixODBC] Error: Attribute "ctid" not found". I don't even get a read-only
  access to data.

I am suspecting a serious ODBC problem. Do you have any hints ?

Sincerely,

                    Emmanuel Charpentier

PS : Please Cc: me your answers : I do not follow the list on a regular
basis, and read it through the nntp interface. E. C.

Re: [INTERFACES] Strange error accessing *views* from Linux through ODBC

From
Hiroshi Inoue
Date:
Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> Due to a problem related to updates of views through rules, I bit the
> bullet and installed Pg 7.3.1. I use Debian (mostly Woody, a. k. a. stable)
> ; after some attempts to install the Woody version, I installed the sid
> versions.
>
>  From Windows (I'm using OpenOffice to access a Linux PostgreSQL database
> through the experimental ODBC3 drive, Dec 17 2002 version), nothing has
> changed : I still can't update a view (I thought the problem I had might be
> related to 7.2 not returning the number of rows updated). More on this
> later, after I have time to create a log ...
>
>  From Linux (Same setup, using the official ODBC driver as packaged by
> Oliver Elphick for Debian Sid, a. k. a. unstable along with unixodbc), I
> can access tables, but no views. When I try to use a view, OpenAccess
> returns me an error message box asserting that "Can't update data contents.
> [unixODBC] Error: Attribute "ctid" not found". I don't even get a read-only
>   access to data.
>
> I am suspecting a serious ODBC problem. Do you have any hints ?

Try to turn off the *Updatable cursors* DSN option or
create view the_table as ctid, oid, .......

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
    http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/