Please look at the mail archives. IIRC, it seemed confusing that you could be looking at old data. Iterating on live data seems more consistent with run to completion semantics.
J On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Keean Schupke <[email protected]> wrote: > So whats the benefit of allowing a cursor to modify the data under it? > > Cheers, > Keean. > > > On 2 February 2011 01:17, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Keean Schupke <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Sorry, sent that before I was finished. >> > >> > Seems prone to problems in environments with multiple parallel accesses >> to >> > the same database. >> >> As long as you're inside a transaction, no other environments (be they >> separate tabs running in a separate process, workers running in a >> separate thread, or separate components running in the same page) will >> be able to mutate the data under you. >> >> / Jonas >> > >
