> What about an option to allways add DB_KEY to the outer select, and
> if this is True, not use auto-key-links at all? This way, we can
> have an updateable resultset in an easy way ( as I understand from
> Claudios documets ) for even the more complex statements... Right?

DB_KEY has its own set of problems in a situation like IB_Query - in
regard to being able to insert, see my previous post. DB_KEY is good
in some circumstances but it is not the panacea.

Personally I think that such an option can be left to the developer
if that is the sort of behaviour they want. I would rather try and
resolve the problem as Jason originally intended, either by improving
the parsing or by separate prepare - see response to Norman.

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Geoff Worboys - TeamIBO
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