Re: Forms 3.0 and Oracle 8

Karsten Weikop wrote:
>
> Is it possible to use Oracle Forms 3.0 together with an Oracle 8.0 database?
>
> Forms 3.0 uses rowid as key and I know that rowid has changed, so will it
> work?

No.

Some simple things can be made to work, but eventually Forms fails giving messages about invalid rowids.

The specific thing that failed for me was as follows:

I have a form which uses the POST built in. I found that, after a POST, if I tried to change a record which I had already changed before the POST, the second attempt to lock the record failed.

Perhaps a form which never used POST might work, but I doubt it.

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