DB design document

[Al Snell]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Merrill wrote:

> Is it possible that the answer is to take the existing engine code and
> separate the Query API into calls into a corresponding API on the
> server side? I'm still getting familiar with the code, so I have only
> a vague concept of its functions. But obviously the existing Query API
> is working.

Yup. The goal of distributing an API is to make that API, which is
implemented on the server, magically be callable from the client - ideally
with no changes. However, we often have to add changes to deal with the
fact that concurrent access by multiple users is now possible, so we can't
store what is really session state in global variables on the server side,
for example.

ABS

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