Re: [INTERFACES] calculated identity field in views, again...

>> Zlatko Matic wrote:
>>
>>> I asked this question several weeks ago, but nobody proposed a
>>> solution, so I am repeating the same question again...
>>> I have an MS Access front-end for a database on PostgreSQL.
>>> I could use pass-through queries as record sources for reports and it
>>> works fine...
>>> Unfortunately, MS Access doesn't allow pass-through queries to be
>>> records sources for subforms.
>>> Therefore I tried to base subforms on regular JET queries on linked
>>> tables. It was too slow...
>>> Then I tried to base subforms on DAO recordset code generated from
>>> pass-through QueryDef objects. Although it worked, it was very
>>> unstable...
>>>
>>> Now it seems to me that POstgreSQL views are the best solution, but
>>> Access considers views as tables (!) and needs column with unique
>>> values.
>>> All those views are complicated queries on several tables, so I can't
>>> use any table's column as primary key. I need a calculated column in
>>> the view that Access will consider as primary key column.
>>> In regular tables, I use bigserial field, but how can I create
>>> calculated bigserial column in a view ?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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>>> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if
>>> your
>>> joining column's datatypes do not match
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Another option is to toss the MS Access altogether and program the
>> front end entirely in VB. That is what we did.
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>> Keith
>>
> Zlatko Matic wrote:
> You mean VB.NET ?

Actually we wrote our interface using VB6.

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Kind Regards,
Keith