Re: [GENERAL] Lock record

2000-06-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:45:52AM +0200, Jan Wieck wrote: > Believe it or not, but holding pure DB locks over > "interaction" in an interactive application isn't what you > really want! The user might go for coffee, and such long time > locks are not what the

Re: [GENERAL] Lock record

2000-06-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Andrea Aime wrote: > > Hi people. I'm writing a client application in Visual Basic, > and I need to lock certain records (a read lock) for > a long period of time (well, from the start just to > the stop of my application) so that no one can modify > them. I've seen a lock command, but it seem on

[GENERAL] Lock record

2000-06-14 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi people. I'm writing a client application in Visual Basic, and I need to lock certain records (a read lock) for a long period of time (well, from the start just to the stop of my application) so that no one can modify them. I've seen a lock command, but it seem only capable to lock an entire tab