(redirected to -hackers) > > * Is there anything open about the DLM spec or code? I.e., could it > > actually be used in a project like PostgreSQL?
The code is not open (despite the OpenDLM name :/ > > * Is there any open source equivalent? http://oss.software.ibm.com/dlm/ > > * Have you looked at any PostgreSQL code and thought about how the DLM > > might be incorporated? (I'm not even really much of a C coder, but the > > idea is exciting to me). Yes. But it wasn't worth thinking about too hard because afaict there were no reasonable distributed lock managers available. The gborg-based replication project probably needs a distributed lock manager. Not sure what it uses currently, and it looks to me that IBM's contribution stalled out for the last few months. There is a little activity on their mailing list but they missed an "any day now" release back in October or November... - Thomas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
