<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Data Records Not Saved to External Firebird Database File" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106463#c14">Comment # 14</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Data Records Not Saved to External Firebird Database File" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106463">bug 106463</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:fr.sanfilippo@gmail.com" title="Francesco <fr.sanfilippo@gmail.com>"> Francesco</a> <pre>(In reply to Terrence Enger from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=106463#c11">comment #11</a>) > 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.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>