Re: Draft Guarded Field document

[Tony Bates <]

 Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@localhost writes:
  * > Actually, what the document says (maybe not too clear) is that when
  * > you send in an object that has guarded attributes, and you have
  * > defined them different than what the files say, the object WILL be
  * > updated, BUT all guarded attributes will be reset to their "guarded"
  * > value.
  * 
  * Ok, sounds reasonable.  Let me suggest a change (addition to the last part
  * of the paragraph) to the text along the lines of:
  * 
  * If an update is sent to the database software using another  mechan-
  * ism  (i.e. mail to auto-dbm@localhost) that contains a guarded attri-
  * bute, this will not be allowed to change the guarded  attribute.  If
  * the  value  of  the  attribute  is  the  same  as  what is currently
  * registered in the database then no warnings will be given.  However,
  * if  the update contains a value for a guarded attribute that is dif-
  * ferent to that registered in the database, a warning will be sent to
  * the  originator  and the guarded value will  remain  unchanged.  Any
  * changes  of other (unguarded) fields  in the update  will be checked
  * for  syntactic correctness  and if they pass  will go through to the
  * database irrespective of any conflicts for the guarded fields.
  * 
  * 
  * - Havard
Havard,
	sounds great  -  I'll the changed text in before the meeting.

		--Tony.