V4RB 351 Var Char Error

[Cindy Brown]

> on 12/2/03 8:52 PM, Cindy Brown at cindy at kowhaiprogramming.com wrote:
> 
>> The varchar field that is causing me all the trouble is in my assessments
>> database and is 3000 characters long. I have other varchar fields but so far
>> I have no corruptions in these. The assessments database is the most
>> intensively used database on the program.
> 
> Hi Cindy,
> 
> I have debug TEST project with VarChar.
> 
> I have fix crash on big VarChar (  > 16KB  )
> On some reason was commented a part of code.
> 
> This bug could not affect you because you say that you use VarChar[3000]
> Maximum.
> 
> 
> So now all my tests of VarChar works again very well.
> And this is very intensive tests.
> 
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> So I think problem really can come from your threading model.
> Please make sure that you use semaphores AT LEAST when you do modifications
> of records in Valentina db + flush.

Every time a record is added, edited or deleted on the server, the db calls
Flush. If two or more threads call flush at the same time, will that affect
the server? Or if flush happens too quickly one after the other, will that
also cause problems?

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Cindy Brown
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