Re: File-based cursors, temporary files and data safety

2012-10-16 Thread Gilles Harloux
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I am in fact handling persistent messages, so it seems it works the way I understood it. About file-based cursors use: My system uses (in the worst case) a large number of queues, each with consumers that (in the worst case) wants a (in the worst case) large volume of m

Re: File-based cursors, temporary files and data safety

2012-10-15 Thread Gary Tully
yes. on a restart that is what happens, so long as the messages are persistent. The file cursor is a pending message cursor, so the messages are pending for a consumer. if the consumer goes away or the broker restarts, the messages are still pending from the store and are replayed through the file

File-based cursors, temporary files and data safety

2012-10-11 Thread Gilles Harloux
Hi, I am designing a system around an embedded broker using file-based cursors. I am trying to make sure I understand the way file-based cursors work: Am I right in thinking that temporary files is functionally the same as memory with respect to transactions and data security? If the system was t