sqlite file format, anyone?

BenoitGrégoire bock at step.polymtl.ca
Tue Jun 24 13:20:22 CDT 2003


On June 23, 2003 09:05 pm, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> Indeed, and point well made.  However, if a DBMS only offers table-level
> locking, then that's pretty much what you're stuck with.  MySQL has
> table locks, according to the book, but I don't know about row level
> locking.  Postgresql has the "SELECT FOR UPDATE" command that can be
> used for explicit row locking.  The current PG back end uses table
> locks--I want to replace those with row locks.  That will, of course, be
> something that is pretty far removed from the engine->back end and
> middle-ware layers.

Well, accordinng to
http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql/index.html MySQL support's row level locks 
when using the InnoDB backend.  Whether or not that make it appropriate for 
GnuCash I have no idea.

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Benoit Grégoire
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