V4MD - Error -39

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/7/04 6:41 PM, "Roland Hildebrandt" <r.hildebrandt at sbt.fr> wrote:

>>> Thank's for the advice of XML dump but my problem is not to save some data
>>> in the files.
>>> 
>>> I need to understand why we become this error on all accounts databases
>>> after 6 months of work.
>>> 
>> This could be sys/app crash
>> 
> 
> I don't think so as far as we get the same problem on 20 computers in one
> week. And I can redo the bug again and again using the way I explained in the
> last mail. 

You can reproduce?

> So the problem seems to be linked to the state of the DB. The
> problem is to understand why the DB goes in this bad state after 6 months of
> use.

Only on db which is old 6 months ?

Roland, first of all I will recommend switch to Valentina 1.10
It have many fixed bugs. Because no big sense discuss 1.9.8,
May be that bug is fixed in 1.10.


>>> In fact we have to make the same kind of project for october. So I have a
>>> big problem because I know I will lose all data after six months on one of
>>> the database but I don't know why and I have no workaround.
>>> 
>>> That's why it's important for me to understand why this happens.
>>> 
>> You should make sure that you have as many flushes as possible.
>> This reduce chance of corruption.
> 
> Accounts is the only DB we change during execution. We use flush command on
> this DB in each script (not each function, but at the end of the script)
> which updates it.

ok

> This raise me another question : Our other DBs are read only but i have been
> surprised that the files (vdb, ind, dat, blb) changes even if not updated. I
> have seen this using CVS : I open the DB make a read only request on it then
> close DB. After this the file is 'modified' in CVS. What's reason for this ?
> Is it linked with some indexes or optimisation for following request ?

Hmm. 

IF files marked as READ ONLY by OS, then any app and Valentina also
cannot modify that files.

So I wonder on your words.


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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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