Re: Question for a MYSQL expert (I assume this list has some)...

2001-06-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:00:01AM -0700, Kenneth Kopelson wrote: I am hoping there are people who use MySQL for serious business applications on this list. We're occasionally serious here. Other times, it just depends on the sort of mood that people seem to be in. :-) (I just think it's

Re: Question for a MYSQL expert (I assume this list has some)...

2001-06-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:43:25AM -0700, Kenneth Kopelson wrote: Thank you Steve, I appreciate your response :) I have considered modifying MySQL to do what I have asked for, but I didn't want to do that until I verified it wasn't already available somewhere. I'll bet this feature is

Re: Question for a MYSQL expert (I assume this list has some)...

2001-06-03 Thread jaab
Dear Kenneth, did you ever consider looking at other technologies than the database driven one? Javaspaces seems to me a very interesting solution for handling distributed storage, and your case seems to be difficult to handle from a database-centric point of view. If you're interested, these

Re: Question for a MYSQL expert (I assume this list has some)...

2001-06-01 Thread Steve Ruby
What you are asking to do is not built into MySQL :( Mysql matintains its own internal database locking that would not be shared amongs the other computers, if you have multiple machines reading a writing to the same database file you will corrupt it in short order. Your best bet in such an

Re: Question for a MYSQL expert (I assume this list has some)...

2001-06-01 Thread Steve Ruby
Kenneth Kopelson wrote: So, how do we get support in MySQL so that multiple instances of the mysqld daemon running on separate machines can all access the same database files located on a central server? I can see how the file system of the central database server could be exported through

Re: Question for a MYSQL expert (I assume this list has some)...

2001-06-01 Thread Kenneth Kopelson
Thank you Steve, I appreciate your response :) I have considered modifying MySQL to do what I have asked for, but I didn't want to do that until I verified it wasn't already available somewhere. I'll bet this feature is something that others would be interested in as well. On the note of