ORA-01445 error when creating a form on a view

Question

Hi,
I am attempting to create a form on a view - the view is a simple select from three tables that are connected to each other via foreign key relationships. When I attempt to submit data via this form, I get the ORA_01445 error. The Oracle8i Error Documentation says that this error is caused when a SELECT statement attempted to select ROWIDs from a view derived from a join operation. Because the rows selected in the view do not correspond to underlying physical records, no ROWIDs can be returned. The solution is to remove ROWID from the view selection clause, then re-execute the statement.
I did not include the rowid when I created my view so I went to look at the package that is generated by Portal to create the form. Sure enough, rowid was appended to the select statements.
Are there any workarounds for this? Why is the rowid appended to the select statement? Do I need to build my view another way? We cannot use master-detail forms because the nature of the data does not allow it. We would like to be able to use just one form to update several tables.
I read in an earlier post that forms cannot be created on views that have DISTINCT, AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, GROUP BY, HAVING, START WITH, or CONNECT BY. My view has none of these. It is just a simple select * from a, b, c.

Answer 1

Melissa,
This is the current limitation of the forms, we do not support non-updatable views, we expect to have the rowid available, if you want to access non-updatable views, please create a QBE report. If you think this is a very important feature, please file a bug.
Thanks,
Dmitry