[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 106463] Data Records Not Saved to External Firebird Database File

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106463

--- Comment #14 from Francesco <fr.sanfilippo at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Terrence Enger from comment #11)
> Thank you, Drew, for your attention.
> 
> In other bug reports, IIRC, I have seen some questioning of whether
> data changes should be saved upon close-without-saving.  I think we
> are caught between two strong and mutually contradictory expectations:
> 
> (1) A user thinking of data entry into a database will expect changes
>     to become permanent at the end of each transaction, for some
>     meaning of transaction.  If Base is linked to an external
>     database, this is how we work.  Right?
> 
> (2) A user thinking of maintaining an office document will expect
>     close-without-save to discard the whole session.
> 
> I see no way to reconcile these expectations.  Comments welcome.

I am not expert of the way Firebird databases work, but it seems like the data
changes are not permanent AT ALL, unless some kind of action (e.g. inserting a
new table) is performed. One could debate on which expectation is the more
appropriate, but this looks to me more like a bug.

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