Re: Problems with primary key
Posted in 1998
Art S. Kagel wrote:
>
> Greg Silverman wrote:
> >
> > We're running Informix SE 7.24 on a Linux box and we're having a problem
> > with reporting of primary keys through dbaccess. Whenever we try to get
> > info on primary key(s) that we have created on a table all we see is
> > "Running..." at the bottom of the dbaccess screen (and it never gets
> > reported).We have tried to create the primary key both through a Create
> > Table statement and the menu. Interestingly though, an index is created
> > and the primary key can be seen through MS Access 97 when attached as a
> > remote table. Also, we seem to be having a problem exporting tables from
> > Access to
> > the server -- in particular, the primary keys do not get transferred
> > (possibly due to problems listed above...)
>
> Do the keys show up in dbschema? If so then they should be there and
> working and I'd report it to Informix as a dbaccess bug.
>
> Art S. Kagel
I have a vague recollection of seeing something similar in version 7.10
(approx) of DB Access. The details elude me now. It looked very much
like a bug to me at the time.
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