Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I have an application where I need a very simple database, > effectively a very large dictionary. The very large > dictionary must be accessed from multiple processes > simultaneously. I need to be able to lock records within > the very large dictionary when records are written to.
Just to clarify, you want shared-read until a write, at which point you want to lock just the item being written? Or would page or table locking be acceptable at that point? Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list