From: Doug C. <dch...@ne...> - 2001-06-20 15:26:04
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At 6/20/2001 10:12 AM (Wednesday), Ann W. Harrison wrote: >At 03:13 PM 6/20/2001 +0200, Ivan Prenosil wrote: >> > >> > Simply stated, the files are to not be shared. >> >>Does not this also prevent gstat from displaying header page ? > >Yes, it probably does. However, the current situation is >serious enough that I don't care about being able to run gstat >on a running database. Beyond V1, we can move gstat into the >engine. I agree with the seriousness of the situation, and therefore Ann's conclusion. However, most file systems do allow for read-only access to be granted to others while reserving exclusive write access, don't they? Could not gstat use read-only access to read the header page? Yes, it might get inconsistent results reading a dynamically changing set of data but that might be better than locking it out completely. |