V4RB - Version 1.10 vs 1.11 and Encryption

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 10/26/05 10:21 PM, "Russ Tyndall" <fitzbew at nc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi Russ,

> Experienced a bizarre problem, thought I would post it for archive purposes.
> Since this is just 1.1x, not sure we should agonize over it too much.
> 
> An RB project using an encrypted Valentina DB and the 1.11 V4RB plugin began
> inexplicably generating a Nil vCursor, even though the associated query has
> run ok a million times.  Suspecting corruption, I restored the DB from a
> backup.  
> 
> Unfortunately, I continued to get the Nil cursor at the same query.

Strange. What if to create new fresh small database ?

> I ran DIAGNOSE on the DB, and the report was filled with errors.
> I restored from an even older DB.  No change.

You diagnose ECNRYPTED db ?

It is know issue that for encrypted db Diagnose reports error
Of kind: "wrong length of file ..."

In fact db is okay.

> Tried lots of rebuilding, exporting, importing, etc. with no luck.
> 
> I remembered that I had upgraded V4RB from 1.10 to 1.11 as part of an
> ill-fated attempt to work around problems upgrading project to V4RB 2.x.  On
> a hunch, I switched out the plugins, so that RB was now using 1.10.
> 
> This fixed the cursor, the project runs happily.

May be you have some problems with record locks?

I can assume that 1.11 is more strict on record locks, than 1.10

 
> I did run DIAGNOSE again (after "downshifting" to 1.10), and was surprised
> to find errors.  Despite reported errors from DIAGNOSE, db appears to be
> fine --- all records are fine, everything looks great.
> 
> Note: If encryption is removed from the equation, there are no errors at all
> in either version of the plugin.
> 
> So, is DIAGNOSE no good with encrypted databases in 1.1x? I have found some
> mention in archives of DIAGNOSE not working if encrypted db has Booleans,
> but I was getting errors with fields of all types.

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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