[ic] Items deleting don't work?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jon Jensen (jon at endpoint.com):
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Mike Heins wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Sergiusz Jarczyk (sjarczyk at wist.net.pl):
> > > Quoting Mike Heins (mike at perusion.com):
> > > >
> > > > This is funny. I am able to duplicate this, but *only the first time IC is
> > > > run after creating the database*. After there is one restart of IC with
> > > > a pre-existing set of tables, then it works fine.
> > > >
> > > > Can you verify this by restarting IC and seeing if it works?
> > > 
> > > I had to restart IC four times, before I was able to delete items. Can you
> > > tell me why it happened? I've never had similar problems with IC, no matter
> > > stable or nightly build.
> > > 
> > 
> > I believe it is Postgres, myself. Try this at the psql prompt right after 
> > building the catalog:
> > 
> > pfound-> delete from products where sku = 'os28004';
> > ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "from" at character 15
> > pfound=> delete from merchandising where sku = 'os28004';
> > DELETE 1
> > pfound=> delete from products where sku = 'os28004';
> > DELETE 1
> > pfound=> 
> > 
> > The third command was run simply by pressing the up-arrow twice, so
> > there is no syntax error there.
> 
> You were not starting with a clean command buffer on that first line -- 
> the prompt:
> 
> pfound->
> 
> shows that you're on line 2 or more of a multi-line statement. This:
> 
> pfound=>
> 
> shows you're on line 1. There could've been a statement left uncompleted, 
> but it seems it would have to be in psql itself to cause this problem.

Yes. That was just after entering with "psql foundation".

> Are 
> you running a different version of the psql client than the postmaster?

Unless that is the situation for the stock Postgres on Red Hat Linux 9,
no.

The only thing I can think of is that user permissions for DELETE are
not getting updated until after some point in time.

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Mike Heins
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