Re: Reusing deleted records

At 11:40 AM 9/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Al,
>
>Thanks for the insight into this.  It just didn't make sense to me that a
deleted
>record map would be carried with the ODP and not shared among all jobs.
>
>As you pointed out, JOBA gets the map, JOBB may retrieve the same map then
start
>deleting records.
>
>Since the information available to JOBA is no longer current/accurate I am
left
>wondering what purpose it serves.  JOBC could be writing records into some of
>these spaces so JOBA couldn't rely on the map to expedite writes.
>
>Besides, IMHO this belongs in the domain of the underlying RDBMS and isn't
any
>business of a particular job.
>
>It just strikes me odd that seemingly worthless information would be a
part of an
>ODP.  Multiply it by the number of ODP's per job and the number of jobs on
the
>system some real memory space starts to add up.
>
>After I read your post yesterday I just thought OK, but it gnawed at me.
(BTW,
>I'm going to the bank and checking out a loan in order to buy a life <G>)
>
>Maybe you can fill me in on what purpose the deleted record map then
serves as a
>part of each ODP?

I didn't design the function, I have merely studied it.  Whereas the
existing design may not be perfect, it does work and work well.

Al




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