>>>>> "James" == James Manning <jmm@stripped> writes:
James> [ Sunday, September 26, 1999 ] Michael Widenius wrote:
>> In the above cases there will be a short instant when the client may
>> get an error message that the table Object is missing.
>>
>> On the other hand, the above is MUCH faster than your original code.
James> So is there any method, either via LOCK's or some other server mechanism,
James> to block incoming queries before assignment to specific tables (if
James> that ever happens) so the switch-over could happen and avoid the "gap
James> of death" that straight renaming induces?
James> I guess doing the rename's in a transaction (when that support comes
James> down the pipe) is the "obvious solution", right?
Note that transaction systems normally doesn't support CREATE TABLE,
DROP TABLE or RENAME,
I have thought about introducing a atomic command like the following:
RENAME TABLE table1 as tmp, table2 as table1, ....
The problem is that the above is very simple to do in Unix, but a pain
to get it to work reliably on Windows :(
We will however look at this in the relatively near future.
Regards,
Monty
