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Re: RE: difference between child and parent latches?

From: K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:57:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20040323125734.2831.qmail@web41506.mail.yahoo.com>


Ryan:

My understanding is whenever/whereever,

a)single latch is not sufficiant to protect the entire data structure b)the contention for that particular latch is severe and the structure can be logically split in to multiple data structures

multiple latches are implemented and grouped as parent-child relationships.

So to answer your question, both are essentially same, but the child latches are created during instance startup (parents are defined in the code) and the number of children can be controlled by some underscore parameters.

Hope this answers your question ! if not Ask Steve Adams

Regards,
Gopal


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