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- From: hitz@ifs.univie.ac.at (Martin Hitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: buggy ROWID
- Message-ID: <9422@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:18:03 GMT
- Sender: walt@mathcs.emory.edu
- Reply-To: hitz@ifs.univie.ac.at (Martin Hitz)
- Lines: 58
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-
- We are running Informix SE 2.10.03K with SCO Unix.
-
- Recently, I have been debugging an error in our application which
- I managed to boil down to the following SQL-script. Can anybody
- tell me if it's a bug or if we misunderstood the concept of ROWID?
- To my opinion, the two SELECTs at the end which differ only with
- respect to the sequence of tables in the FROM clause
- should NOT generate different output. In fact, I consider the last output
- WRONG:
-
- create table a (k smallint);
- create table b (k smallint);
-
- insert into a values (1);
- insert into a values (2);
- insert into a values (3);
-
- insert into b select * from a;
- delete from b where k = 2;
-
- select rowid brow, k bk from b;
-
- brow bk
-
- 1 1
- 3 3
-
- select a.rowid arow, b.rowid brow, a.k ak, b.k bk from b, a where a.k = b.k;
-
- arow brow ak bk
-
- 1 1 1 1
- 3 3 3 3
-
- select a.rowid arow, b.rowid brow, a.k ak, b.k bk from a, b where a.k = b.k;
-
- arow brow ak bk
-
- 1 1 1 1
- 3 2 3 3
-
- ^^^
- !!!
-
-
- Many thanks in advance,
-
-
- Martin Hitz
-
- Department of Information Systems Internet: hitz@ifs.univie.ac.at
- University of Vienna Phone: +43-1-40103-2795
- Liebiggasse 4/3-4 +43-1-436712
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-
- P.S.: Another inconvenience: ISQL core-dumps whenever it asks to select
- a table interactively, obviously because there are more of them
- than could fit on one screen. Is there a work-around?
-