On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:28:41PM -0700, Dan Means was heard to remark: > Table locks should only happen when some sort of "major" updating or > housekeeping is needed...it's easy enough to use a simple semaphore > system "L" in a text field means it's in use for example...but then you > need to consider login / session type tables, and utilities to clear > erroneous locks...
locks are faster, easier, and safer than semaphores. The pg backend already has a login/session table that records which users are logged on. I beleive the audit trail tables reference the login-user. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
