>>>>> "elble" == elble <elble@stripped> writes:
Steven> I think the update to 23.8 and the breaking the tables will let us survive
Steven> the next 2-3 months. :)
>>
>> By then we should have the option of using the new transactions safe
>> tables, which in effect gives you page locks.
>>
>> Do you use fixed record-size or variable record-size tables?
>> For fixed size tables it would be quite easy to add insert even on
>> deleted slots which would of course give you dirty reads, but you can
>> maybe live with this? In this case we probably need something like
>> INSERT DIRTY for this kind of inserts.
elble> <cry from the peanut gallery>
elble> i used fixed record-size tables and could benefit from this immensely
elble> (REPLACE/INSERT DIRTY)!
elble> in this scenario would DIRTY be mutually exclusive of DELAYED?
No. It shouldn't be any problems with using INSERT DIRTY DELAYED.
The problem is that I don't think we will have time to look at this
real soon (just too much to do before the PHP developers meeting)...
Regards,
Monty
