Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 4th Dimension
Message-ID: <432@stech.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 13:04:28 GMT
References: <54300008@upba>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <54300008@upba>, bill@upba.UUCP says:
> Nf-ID: #R:arthur.UUCP:108:upba:54300008:000:1249
> Nf-From: upba.UUCP!bill    Feb  2 14:34:00 1988
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> 	The response we have gotten from the users have been 
> 	pretty good with the only gripe being, if more than one
> 	person wants to access the same record, it tends to 
> 	freeze up until the first user is done with that record.

What you describe as "freezing up" is known as record locking.  Record
locking is essential in a multi-user database system.  Unfortunately,
4D is slow enough that you're aware of it.  (Without record locking, all
sorts of bad things would happen to your data, leading to integrity and
consistency problems).


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop

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