Re: Lost updates vs resumable connections/transactions

Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:

> Even applications that have statefull enduser terminals (like SAP R/3 for
> example) never allow an open transaction over user interaction.

I'm not sure using SAP as your paragon of design excellence is a wise choice
here. From what I understand SAP implemented its own locking system because
the database it was based on didn't offer any locking at all.

But your basic point is sound. For a web site I would definitely avoid using
anything like database locks and even avoid doing anything with application
locks if possible.

If you really really want to expose the database session state I think he's on
the right track using SQLRelay. This would let him handle reconnecting a user
with her session even if she's connecting to a different Apache process.

I suspect the database wouldn't really be able to suspend a database
connection using any less memory than just keeping the entire backend process
with its session around anyways.

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greg