[db-wg] Re: "changed:" attribute

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 04:31 PM, Peter Koch wrote:

>> user. Casual users looking for contact information in the default
>> output are an important class, probably not the most well-informed or
>
> Unfortunately they use ``clever'' and ``enhanced'' tools.
>
>> patient, and it may be worth suppressing "changed:" in the view they
>> get. This applies whatever decisions we make about the internal
>
> That was tried before in 1998 (to be overridden by the "-c" switch), 
> but
> then changed back. I don't remember the reason.
>

People who use a query/copy/paste/modify/send cycle to maintain the DB 
data were hit when they forgot to include the -c flag, loosing the 
chain of changed: attributes forever.

Joao