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Description: IDE Build : Pilsen FCS RC1 (010803) EE After connecting to a Pointbase database, DB Explorer allows browing of tables & thier indexes. Right click on an Index and Choose Delete. It might throw NullPointerException. IDE would get frozen. You would need to Shutdown PB Server & Restart it. Use attached Schema, try deleting indexes of table VENDORCONTACT, it throws the Exception : java.lang.NullPointerException at com.pointbase.jdbc.jdbcTmpResultSetMetaData.getColumnType(Unknown Source) at com.pointbase.net.netConnectionHandler.preInvokationProcessing (Unknown Source) at com.pointbase.net.netConnectionHandler._processNextRequest(Unknown Source) at com.pointbase.net.netConnectionHandler.processNextRequestChooser (Unknown Source) at com.pointbase.net.netConnectionHandler.run(Unknown Source) Evaluation: During a specific action (e.g. drop system index) is being done IDE would appear to hang. This condition can be remedied only by shutting down the Pointbase Server, outside the IDE. A comment.
It seems to be a Pointbase 3.5 issue. IDE does not freeze if it is used with PointBase 4.0 and later.
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Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.