On 7 Nov 2003 at 0:00, Rick King wrote:

> Hi - I had a situation where flattening a view caused some fields to be
> corrupted. It seemed that data was being assigned to the wrong field.
> 
> Once I removed duplicate field names in the view being flattened and the
> containing row the problem went away (or so it seems).
> 
> Is this a known bug? Or am I missing something?

Mostly that's the way Metakit works, though the Python binding
introduces a bit of a wrinkle.

You can use view.rename(from, to). That's not an in-place operation.
It's low overhead - the data isn't touched, it just tweaks a copy of
the metadata.
-- Gordon
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/


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