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Re: [ic] "touching" a database causes [import] to stop working
Quoting Chris Wenham (cwenham@netmonger.net):
>
> I've isolated a problem that's happening whenever I want to use the
> [import] tag to add a record to a database.
>
> If I use [perl tables="whatever"] or [data whatever column key] in
> the same page, then the [import] tag fails to work. As soon as I
> comment out the [data] tag (or remove the table from the perl tag),
> the [import] works again.
>
> What I'm doing in the page that performs the [import] is to check for
> duplicate records before inserting. This means doing a lookup on the
> proposed key to make sure there isn't already a record with the same
> key. The act of "touching" the database this way appears to make the
> [import] tag impotent.
>
> Is Interchange/minivend locking the table?
Yes.
You need to do a [flag type=write table=whatever] before you
do the [perl tables="whatever"]. Once the table is opened read-only,
there is no going back.
If you look for WRITE_CONTROL you can set it to always, but that
is a bit dangerous.
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