Is it safe to use valdump while a database is being accessed?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 22/6/07 8:03 AM, "Steven Ronald" <stevenrt39 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

Hi Steven,

> Ruslan,
> 
> is it safe to use valdump on a database while that
> database is being accessed (read,add record, update
> record etc)? ie is there any problem doing valdump on
> a database while there are active cursors to it that
> might be adding, deleting or updating records in the
> database?

It is not safe...

Hmm, good question. I can inform you that we did consider adding new
commands:

    LOCK TABLE tblName
    LOCK DATABASE

Currently Valentina have record level locks made by cursors.
But sometimes can be useful these high level locks.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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