Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base 3.4.3 on Linux using ODBC

Hello Alex,
Seems like I unfortunately cannot get rid of the Java Runtime environment.
The reason is that the report-generator needs it!!!  :(
Regards
Heinrich

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:50:19 +0200, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 16/09/11 20:44, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :
>
> Hi Heinrich,
>
> > When I enter data into a table where some columns have a default value
> > defined
> > (i.e., I do NOT actually enter ANYTHING into such colums but rely on the
> > default value) this default value is actually entered correctly into the
> > table.
> > However, the default value is not shown on completion of data entry.
> > Only when selecting
> > the tuple afterwards do I see that everything is o.k.
> > This only happens on my Linux system. LO 3.3.4.1 Base on MS-Vista with
> > the native
> > MySQL-Connector does everything correctly.
>
> The native connector and the ODBC have limitations which are different
> (I don't remember where originally they were listed, but they were,
> probably when the native connector first came out or was in development).
>
> Additionally, there is a lot of buggy behaviour in current ODBC
> implementation with mysql from within OOo/LibO. One of the problems I
> remember with the ODBC connector is that OOo was unable to completely
> ask for all of the functionality supported by the driver, and even then,
> sometimes the driver incorrectly reported back to OOo what it was
> capable of handling. So there are several possible causes :
>
> - new bug introduced with the OOo 3.4.x branch and taken over into the
> LibO code ;
> - bug in the ODBC driver itself;
> - new bug just in the LibO code that affects ODBC connections.
>
> Having had problems myself with a proprietary ODBC connector on Mac, and
> accessing a mysql db via OOo/LibO, I tend to favour the first of the
> three possibilities I listed.
>
> I would report it as a bug and add it to the increasingly long list.
>
> Alex


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