[GNC-dev] [GNC] mysql backend, second user (lock, for example)

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
Wed Nov 7 19:14:26 EST 2018



> On Nov 8, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Craig Arno <craig at arno.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/7/2018 3:43 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> Always keep GnuCash’s target audience (Personal/Small Business) in mind: We’re definitely not designing for “heavy database updates”. 
> 
> "heavy database updates" can be caused in a Personal/Small Business application when two asynchronous events arrive at the same time from a "second user".  This can also happen if an Offline->Online transaction replay/sync occurs, especially if a "second user" is working/involved during replay.

Not my understanding of “heavy database updates” (which would be something like > 100K TPS), but OK. 

Regards,
John Ralls



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