On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:49 PM, John Baughman via 4D_Tech < [email protected]> wrote:
> And, yes, I too was told that the engineers were leaning to declaring this > as standard behavior. Why? I have not a clue. > I'm failing to come up with any good arguments in support of such a posture. If you make an assignment to a field and save the record, the assignment should stick. Nothing else makes sense from a DBMS perspective. That's exactly the sort of behavior that should be absolute and unquestionable. (The only exception being that you have to be in a position to write any changes to the record.) I hope that they come in off the ledge and don't create a buggy feature that will lead to some really, really hard to detect bugs in the field for years to come. ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
