Progress
Programming
Handbook


Field List Handling in Degenerate Cases

When you specify field lists, Progress is very flexible where it cannot make use of them. Progress either returns complete records automatically or allows you to bypass field list processing completely for the following cases:

Thus, while using field lists can lead to difficulties, Progress provides a way around most of them. And when used optimally, the performance gains can make field lists well worth the extra attention they might require.


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