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Progress 4GL Reference

ROW-STATE attribute

The current change state of the ProDataSet temp-table row associated with the buffer object handle.

Data type: INTEGER

Access: Readable

Applies to: Buffer object handle

Note: The ROW-STATE attribute corresponds to the ROW-STATE function.

When the TRACKING-CHANGES attribute is set to TRUE for a ProDataSet temp-table, Progress tracks changes to the data in that temp-table using a before-image temp-table that contains the original version of each row. You can think of the temp-table itself as the after-image because it contains the latest version of each row.

Every row in the after-image table that has been modified or created corresponds to a row in the before-image table. Deleted rows do not appear in the after-image table, because it reflects the current state of the data. Every row in the before-image table has a non-zero ROW-STATE, because every row is the before-image of a deleted, created, or modified row in the after-image table. Unchanged rows do not appear in the before-image table.

You can use the ROW-STATE attribute on each row in either the after-image table or the before-image table to determine whether a row has changed and how it has changed.

The possible values can be expressed as compiler constants. Table 82 lists these values.

Table 82: Row state values 

Compiler constant	Value	Description
ROW-UNMODIFIED	0	The row was not modified.
ROW-DELETED	1	The row was deleted.
ROW-MODIFIED	2	The row was modified.
ROW-CREATED	3	The row was created.