Greetings.
I have an application that accesses some relatively static database
tables to create drop-down select lists. As an example, one of these
tables is a list of common commercial aircraft.
At the moment (and not in a production environment), every time the
drop-down list is
Colin Wetherbee wrote:
At the moment (and not in a production environment), every time the
drop-down list is generated for a web page, the script queries the
database to retrieve the entire list of aircraft. I would prefer to
retrieve the list of aircraft when each Perl interpreter starts and
John ORourke wrote:
Colin Wetherbee wrote:
At the moment (and not in a production environment), every time the
drop-down list is generated for a web page, the script queries the
database to retrieve the entire list of aircraft. I would prefer to
retrieve the list of aircraft when each Perl
On Jan 13, 2008 4:19 PM, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought about the file thing... if the file exists, check its last
modified timestamp; if that timestamp is greater than the stored
timestamp, then update the data from the database. It seems like
unnecessary disk access,
