At 12:08 +1100 3/5/03, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>Paul DuBois wrote:
>
>>That is, you're making an assumption that cannot necessarily be made.
>>If you can guarantee that the web script will establish a new connection,
>>and the connection will terminate when the script ends, you can indeed
>>do what you describe above.
>>
>>But you *cannot* do that if you're running your script in an environment
>>that uses persistent connections that may be used by successive instances
>>of the script. PHP persistent connections fall into this class, for
>>example. Several requests might be served by the same instance of the
>>web server process, and you don't know that one request won't be getting
>>the connection used by a previous request. In that case, the connection
>>won't have closed, and the TEMPORARY table won't have disappeared.
>>
>>You can guard against this by issuing this query before creating the
>>TEMPORARY table:
>>
>>DROP TABLE IF EXISTS tbl_name
>
>In this case I would actually use unique table names.
>If you have a web server that is set up to use persistant database
>connections and there is a chance that 2 clients may run the same
>script in the same connection, then dropping the tmp table isn't
>going to solve all of your problems. You can't have the 2nd instance
>of the script screwing with the 1st. If you have some form of unique
>identifier, then append it to the table name. Otherwise consider
>creating your own (and testing for it's existance before using it)
>and appending it to the table name.
Dropping the table before attempting to use it eliminates any need to
come up with a unique name.
Two clients *cannot* run the same script at the same time, *unless* they
are being executed by different web server processes. In that case, they'll
be using different connections, and a temporary table created by one
connection cannot be seen by the other connection.
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