Transaction logging and the dbi backend

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sat Jun 12 12:05:43 EDT 2010


On Saturday 12 June 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Saturday 12 June 2010 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > But I'm unhappy with that choice, because it's inconsistent. I see two
> > potential uses for the transaction log:
> > * Data recovery in case of a crash
> > * Audit trail
> > ...
> >
> > So there's question number one: should transaction logging be enabled for
> > all backends or only for the xml backend ?
> 
> After pondering your explanation a bit, I believe even though this feature
> could have been for audit trail, in reality it never has been used this way
> because e.g. there isn't any UI that would enable an audit evaluation.
>  Also, this hasn't been requested as a feature regularly.
> 
> Instead, regardless of the technical possibilities it has and is being used
> merely as data recovery method. Because of this, I think it is sufficient
>  to continue using the transaction logging only for XML and for no other
>  backend.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
Ok, I have implemented it as such.

Geert


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