I'm trying to create a new database on postgres, by running command: CREATE DATABASE dbname; and I face the error: WARNING: could not flush dirty data: Function not implemented many times! ...

I seem to remember reading somewhere that rails won't commit to the database if no attributes have been changed (presumably as part of active record dirty) is this the case? I can't seem to find it...

How to update ALL the dirty entities from the data store, and reset their changed values to the original store value? The method ObjectContext.Refresh requires as a parameter the entities to be re...

I see some variables named 'dirty' in some source code at work and some other code. What does it mean? What is a dirty flag?

Rails ActiveRecord support partial updates and it works well most of the time, but in case we have serialized hash field AR executes update every time, even if nothing has been changed. Here exampl...

I see the term "dirty" or "dirty objects" a lot in programming. What does this mean?

I am binding my entities to an edit form in WPF. Within a DataTemplate, I want to be able to set the background color of the root container within a DataTemplate to show it has been changed and the...