In the early days, it was group locking rather than record locking. However, this technique locks the entire file.
Eugene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [U2] READU vs LOCK > Mark, > > I may be wrong, but I have a vague memory that in the very early days, > multivalue databases (Pick?) didn't have record level locking. > > Use of LOCK/UNLOCK is hard to justify and probably even harder to get to > work without endless deadlocks. I came across a legacy application recently > that had no locking at all! > > Martin Phillips > Ladybridge Systems > 17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB > +44-(0)1604-709200 > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
