Re: Journaling

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello David,

You wrote:
>But - Andersen bothered to build in the journaling properly.  Part of this
>is to open files for input only where possible.  Files opened for update
>will have all their reads journaled.  So... MACPAC would often open the same
>file multiple times - once for read only operations, once for updates.  This
>minimized the impact on the journals.

While I agree with most of what you wrote, this statement is silly.  READs are 
never 
journalled, what would be the point!  I know some sites want to know who read a 
record 
but journalling isn't the way to accomplish that.  Journalling has no effect on 
reads.  
Even reads though an update ODP.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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