Re: [INTERFACES] ODBC Locking troubles

Byron Nikolaidis wrote:

> > I'm still messing around with MSAccess as interface for my PostgreSQL
> > database and I've found out something interesting.
> >
> > When trying to access some data to update in a simple table (just a
> > serial and 4 columns of various types) I noticed that when I try to do
> > an update on any of the records from a form or directly from the table,
> > MSAccess is saying that another user is locking that record and cannot
> > update it. Obviously that's not true since that's the only task
> > accessing the database right now.
> >
>
> Check the "Use Declare/Fetch" option under the odbc driver options (Advanced
> Options/Driver). If it is enabled, turn it off. Until we have the MVCC
> locking, there is always a potential for problems with this option enabled.
>

I checked it out and it's already turned off on both PCs.

> > Now I'm thinking it's an ODBC problem and I should update some drivers
> > on my work's machine but I already tried installing the new DAO and ODBC
> > stuff from Visual Studio 6 Suite but nothing changed. Any idea ? Anybody
> > happened to notice this strange behaviour ?
> >
>
> It never hurts to make sure you have the latest odbc driver
> (http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc)
>

Done this, too :)
Same driver on both machines.

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