Re: "Invalid cursor position" error when using recordsetsand text fields

Thanks Andrew - yes it is a legacy app using DAO. We are porting to
Java/JDBC. In the interim we switched the field to varchar from text.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Ayers" <aayers(at)eldocomp(dot)com>
To: "Brian Huber" <brianghuber(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ODBC] "Invalid cursor position" error when using recordsetsand
text fields

Brian Huber wrote:
> I'm using recordsets in VB to through psqlODBC
> 7.3.100 and am receiving "invalid cursor position"
> when trying to retrieve the value of text fields. I
> do not get this problem when retrieving numeric
> fields.

You don't say how you are accessing the tables, etc:

* DAO (version?)
* ADO (version?)
* Straight SQL (unlikely, given your problem)
* Something else...

Likely it is one of the first two (DAO or ADO). I can tell you that I
was experiencing that problem in a conversion of an application from
Access 97 to PG (using the ODBC drivers). At the time, my application
was using DAO, and I was running into all sorts of funky problems.
Switching to ADO solved the vast majority. If I had to do it all over
again, though - I think I would have gone for straight SQL updates.

Look through both the ODBC and GENERAL list archives - my posts and such
will be in there from earlier this year.

Andrew Ayers
Phoenix, Arizona

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