Re: [gnome-db] Re: Minor API change and MySQL [update/delete]_row

[Laurent Sansonetti <laurent datarescue be>]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:19, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 14:21, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 02:18, Paisa Seeluangsawat wrote:
> > > There's a family of functions that I couldn't find any code using
> > > them.  Since they sound like an old, unused updating scheme, I removed
> > > them.
> > > -	      gda_data_model_begin_edit(),
> > > -	      gda_data_model_end_edit(),
> > > -	      gda_data_model_cancel_edit(),
> > > -	      gda_data_model_is_editing()
> > 
> > I was wondering the same thing.  Are those methods still required?
> 
> they were made for the updatable models thing, so that's why they are
> not used. They are intended to tell the data model's implementation when
> to start batched editions. Thus, the data model can start a transaction
> (begin_edit), commit it (end_edit) or rollback it (cancel_edit).
> 
> I thought, at the time I wrote that, this was a good way to allow
> clients to do batched edits, and commit/rollback many changes at once.
> Also, it allows the data model implementation to initialize anything it
> might need to in order to do the updates.
> 

OK I got the idea, I'm working on these methods.  They will be
implemented in the next patch for the pgsql provider.

BTW I will also implement gda_data_model_is_editable().

Cheers,

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