Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > 2009/1/28 Richard Fairhurst <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > FWIW, my experience is that data inconsistencies of this sort happen > mostly > when the server is under very heavy load. If a process is killed halfway > through a write operation, then obviously you're going to get some > sort of > inconsistency. You can order the operations so that this is less > likely (cf > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/13184/), but as has been > said here > extensively, this kind of stuff is always going to happen without > transactions. > > > but this is a big problem as the server is quite often under heavy load. > Isn't it possible to transfer lets say to a temporary place, and when > the transaction is completed, tell the server to copy from temp to real? > Is there any feedback the server gives to the client, whether a save > operation was succesful?
The point happens on modification, so I would say yes, this is possible. But for creation it is never possible (hence an id should be returned). Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
