"Mikheev, Vadim" wrote:
>
> > I know people who rollback most of their transactions
> > (actually they use it to emulate temp tables when reporting).
>
> Shouldn't they use TEMP tables? -:)
They probably should.
Actually they did it on Oracle, so it shows that it can be done
even with O-smgr ;)
> > OTOH it is possible to do without rolling back at all as
> > MySQL folks have shown us ;)
>
> Not with SDB tables which support transactions.
My point was that MySQL was used quite a long time without it
and still quite many useful applications were produced.
BTW, do you know what strategy is used by BSDDB/SDB for
rollback/undo ?
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Hannu
