Next beta will have record locks.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 7/1/03 18:42, Tim Davis at timdavis at amug.org wrote:

> 
>>> How persistent are these locks? For instance, suppose my app crashes
>>> while a record is locked.  Is the lock written to the db, or does it
>>> just live during the runtime?
>> 
>> File of Record locks (this is 4 byte per record) is stored in the .ind
>> file.
>> 
>> These files are marked as TMP, so In case of crash on next open
>> Valentina
>> will remove them automatically.
> 
> I'm seeking clarification. If a client app locks records, then crashes,
> but the client is not restarted, (the server continues running), when
> are the records write-enabled for another requesting client?

Good question Tim.

As you could see if you interrupt client then server catch this (don't ask
me how :-) and close connection for this user. As result all his cursors are
destroyed and records are unlocked.


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