At 8:58 PM +0100 25-01-00, Chris Yourch wrote:
>Is it safe to store the local id of a record and access it later? Does it
>ever change?
This is not safe. The localID will change whenever the master pointer
changes. On 2.0 and earlier devices, this could happen if garbage
collection forced the chunk to move from one heap to another. On any
device, this will happen if the device is erased and the data is restored
from a backup (using HotSync(tm)).
See http://oasis.palm.com/devzone/knowledgebasearticle.cfm?article_id=1145
, specifically
http://oasis.palm.com/devzone/knowledgebasearticle.cfm?article_id=1145#A_Word_Ab
out_LocalIDs for details. (And watch out for word wrapping on those URLs.)
--Bob
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