Can new additions trigger an email to the list (ideally with the text)? Tim.
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:44:08PM -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote: > 1. You can send it to the list and ask for suggestions (recommended) > > or > > 2. You can send it to me to look through (strongly discouraged:-) > > or > > 3. You can just update the FAQ and if someone catches it, they can let me > know and I will change/add. Anyone can add to a certain category though, > but not delete/update. > > Anyone can add to the FAQ, but only administrators have access to content > that they did not create. If someone who's very active on this list and > have been for a while wants to help administer the FAQ, please let me know > and I'll give them those priveleges at my discretion. > > Ilya > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew O. Persico > To: ''dbi-users ' ' > Sent: 9/29/02 11:06 AM > Subject: FAQ Validity > > Is anyone vetting the answers that are added to this FAQ? > > Or, put another way, if I submit an entry that is just plain dead wrong, > is there anyone who could catch it before my stupidity is inflicted on > the entire planet? > > FYI, my planned entry is: > > Q: How do I share a database handle between a parent and its child > process? > > A: You don't. You give the child enough information to open its own > connection and let it do so. There are two prime reasons for not sharing > connections between parent and child processes: > > 1) There is no guarantee that the client libraries that talk to the > database can handle two processes "talking" to the same connection. > > 2) The DBI connection handle may hold data that relates to the state of > the connection. Once the parent and the child are separated, you have > two different data structures in different memory spaces. Changes made > to one are not automatically made to the other and can leave the handles > in an inconsistent state. > > > -- > Matthew >
