Locking (was Re: refreshing the GUI)

[Derek Atkins]

Phillip J Shelton <shelton11@dingoblue.net.au> writes:

> Are you thinking of `locking ' at the transaction level or account
> level.  The example that comes to mind is: One person is reconciling
> last months records and someone else is entering this months
> transactions.  As these modifications don't clash, the users would not
> expect that a change for one would nulify the change for the other.

Personally I was thinking at the transaction level.  Account-level
locking is, well, a little too course-grained, IMHO.

> Phill

-derek

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