Re: [Firebird-devel] A couple of questions about why.c and implem enting database alias es

[John B. <bel...@cs...>]

Sean,

On Thursday, June 7, 2001, at 10:55 AM, Leyne, Sean wrote:

> David,
>
> Yes, I'm proposing to open/read the alias file (called fbalias) each
> time an alias needs to be resolved.

In the past when I have just checked the modification time (stat on 
unix) before reloading the file.  I don't know what the performance for 
the stat function is, but it should be better (on average) than reading 
the file every time.

-John