On 18 September 2012 17:59, Robert Sosinski <rsosin...@ticketevolution.com>wrote:
> We have a table, which has items that can be put on hold of 5 minutes > (this is for an online store) once they are placed into a cart. What we > need is for this hold to automatically expire after 5 minutes. Right now, > we put a time stamp into the row (called hold_until) at 5 minutes into the > future, and select items where hold_until is less then now(). > > Would it be possible to change this to using a boolean that is set to true > when item is put on hold, and have something like a time-based trigger > automatically update the held boolean to false after 5 minutes pass. > > Thanks, > > -- > Robert Sosinski > > It is not possible right now, however I'd rather create some cron job which updates the boolean value if needed and runs each minute. - Szymon
