Re: Database Field type in db_access.h

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

On 05/03/2017 11:45 AM, Mooney, Tim M. wrote:
> re...
> 
>> What I meant to say is that I think that DBF_NO_ACCESS could be removed
>> as it isn't useful.  I suspect that it exists as a historical echo of
>> DBF_NOACCESS in dbAccess.h, which signifies a DB field where the storage
>> can't be directly converted to one of the other DBF_* types (eg TIME in
>> dbCommon.dbd or VAL in waveformRecord.dbd).
> 
> It's useful for autosave.  I need to know if a field whose value is to be restored
> isn't ready to be written to yet (before record init), because its field type hasn't
> been set, or its array space hasn't been allocated. 

I was only referring to the DBF_NO_ACCESS macro, which autosave doesn't
use explicitly.

https://github.com/epics-modules/autosave/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=DBF_NO_ACCESS&type=

I suspect that you mean usage of VALID_DB_REQ() which is as it should be.

https://github.com/epics-modules/autosave/blob/591ddcf7cdea69d5e6ac32728c6387a3fd7b6ada/asApp/src/dbrestore.c#L348