On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:24:00AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> > > + Every transaction is assigned a name. You can open a transaction
> > > + by name, and resume work on it, or find out the name of an existing
> > > + transaction. You can also list all the transactions currently
> > > + present in the database. */
> >
> > Can we get a clarification on the construction of that name? Specifically,
> > what characters will be used in the name? [A-Za-z0-9] ?
>
> Sure, whatever you want.
>
> I was going to use PID.TIME, where PID and TIME are both strings of
> ASCII digits, and check for clashes. 99% of the time it'd be faster
> than a more centralized allocation algorithm. Would that be okay?
More than fine. I presume you'd probably just use TIME as a pure integer
rather than formatted? Thus: 23765.968516893
You're the man!
Cheers,
-g
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:08 2006