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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 19:34, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> 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.
> 
no, hold on, I think we're going to follow Paisa's advise, and have the
get_updatable_row/update_row stuff. So dont implement those methods.

> BTW I will also implement gda_data_model_is_editable().
> 
cool!

cheers