[odb-users] ODB Help.

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi,

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art at it-gen.net writes:

> We don't need to change our code in this field, and we will never
> change it, we're just using it for information purposes in the form in
> which it is in a database. The problem is that this field is changing
> in uncertain intervals of time an outside software. That is a big
> chance that after we downloaded the object from a database using odb::
> load () and worked with him for some time, but did not not yet have
> written back the object in a database with odb:: update () an outside
> software changed the value rating_  on a new field. In our code yet
> saved the old value and if make odb:: update (), our old value is
> overwrite the new value that is in the database.

Ok, I think I understand your use case better now. Looks like we will
need a readonly pragma to support this. I will try to add it for the
next release of ODB.

Boris