I must chime in and agree strongly, but I also have a query: do the
pointers for HeapStruct (and related form struct) ever have to be
re-initialized using the cache lookup functions?
On Mon, 23 February 1998, at 21:49:48, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Direct file access from inside a backends function is IMHO
> never a good thing. This is the job of an application
> program, because the actually accessed file might be on an
> NFS filesystem, this can hang and the database backend will
> hang inside of a transaction where maybe even the DBA or root
> cannot kill them (process is blocked inside a system call).
>
> This is IMHO a NONO.
