4.5 Server - string fields saving only a single character

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/14/10 10:08 AM, "Bart Pietercil" <bart.pietercil at cognosis.be> wrote:

Hi Robert,

This was bug in 4.5.1

Please take latest 4.6 beta for your product.

    http://www.valentina-db.com/download/beta/


> But I do think seeing something  in Mantis relating to such a problem. Why
> don't you try testing 4.6 beta ? It is quite stable.
> 
> 
> Bart Pietercil
> CTO Cognosis NV
> 
> 
> 
> On 13 Apr 2010, at 21:48, Robert Nichols wrote:
> 
>> OK. Very strange problem...and the list may think I'm crazy, but I've just
>> spent 3 hours trying to isolate the problem so I wouldn't look like a fool.
>> If I'm missing something really obvious, then...sorry in advance! (I'll be a
>> fool, but with my problem solved.)
>> 
>> I'm running 4.5 server with V4rb mac client. Upon upgrading plugin and server
>> to 4.5 from 3.?, I started having a problem saving string values to newly
>> created records.
>> 
>> Here is the pattern, I believe:
>> 
>> - If I 
>> 1. create a blank cursor,
>> 2.  cursor.addrecord
>> 3. populate fldString
>> 4. update via cursor.updaterecord
>>  then the value sticks correctly, and can be successfully edited later.
>> 
>> 
>> BUT
>> 
>> - If I 
>> 1. create a blank cursor, and
>> 2. do NOT populate fldString
>> 3. cursor.addrecord (returns recid 123)
>> 4. cursor = nil
>> 5. create new cursor to edit record 123
>> 
>> Then the FIRST time I try to populate and update fldString via cursor,
>> valentina only saves first character of string.
>> Subsequent attempts to update truncated value are successful. The only time
>> the problem happens is when fldString is populated for the FIRST in a cursor
>> other than the cursor used to create record (cusor.addrecord).
>> 
>> 
>> I'm seeing the problem in different fields and across different tables. I
>> never saw anything like this prior to migrating from 3.? (can't recall what
>> version I was using) to 4.5.
>> 
>> Crazy? I couldn't find any similar references in the list archive, so I
>> suspect I am the problem...

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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