At 12:14 PM 5/04/2005 +0200, you wrote:

> > You must apply DML to committed DDL objects. Weird things happen when you
> > mess about as you did, with metadata ghosts hanging around in an
> > uncommitted transaction. >>>"As designed".<<<
>
>"weird things" as designed?
>
>I would call "raising an error" as designed, but not "weird things"

It would, if it were *designed* to raise an error when you do something
that, in SQL terms, isn't disallowed but that, in terms of common sense, is
daft. But it wasn't designed that way. It was designed to run DDL
statements in autoDDL by default.

>:-)
>
>
>But hey, we discussed this in fb-devel. No results yet though.

No "results" even proposed, really. Most agree *something* needs to be
done to prevent "silly" scripts from continuing to execute; but it's
another of these cases where, by stopping careless people from doing silly
things, you have to also stop careful people from doing things that are
entirely reasonable.

Until there is some solution that works for everyone, I'll just stick with
advising people to use isql in the way it was designed to be used and to
expect weird things back when you throw weird things at it. Same as I
advise people not to use the microwave as a hairdryer for puppies.

:-)
./hb