On 2015-09-22 04:36 AM, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:19:16 +0200 > "R.Smith" <rsmith at rsweb.co.za> wrote: > >> >> This is the entire point of a database - allowing multiple things to >> see the data. A system which only allows one thread to read data is >> just a file-handler. > ..// > Not to be snarky about it, but depending on what you mean by > "file-handler", I can think of a few systems, such as stdio, that > provide access by more than one thread to a single file. They don't > provide much sense of isolation, though, except in append-mode.
Indeed, but my assertion was not a blanket-statement about file-handlers (maybe the reference is unfortunate), it was rather a blanket-statement about when things are NOT databases.
