Re: locking and web interfaces - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: locking and web interfaces
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0110231955550.5652-100000@aguila.protecne.cl
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In response to locking and web interfaces  (Dado Feigenblatt <dado@wildbrain.com>)
Responses plperl and table/record access  (Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Dado Feigenblatt wrote:

> Hi, I'm fairly new to this subject.
>
> How does locking work when accessing the database via web interfaces?
> Usually applications work in a browsing mode. When you click the edit
> button, the same data is presented in a form which can be submited for
> update.

There was some discussion not long ago on this list about this subject.
IIRC there was almost one solution for every poster. Maybe you can take
a look at the archives,
http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1031482

> Would persistent connections fix this? Do people use this mode switching
> to implement their own locks?

No, persistent connections do not help here.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
"Ninguna manada de bestias tiene una voz tan horrible como la humana" (Orual)




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