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From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Caching within packages..
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:37:53 -0800
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Joachim Zobel wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:35:52 -0800, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> 
> 
>>NetComrade wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:48:48 -0800, Daniel Morgan
>>><damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>So every time someone makes a change to a table you are going to bounce 
>>>>the server? Do you really advocate that? If so I'd suggest you keep 
>>>>really quiet during job interviews.
>>>
>>>
>>>Not necessarily 'bounce', more like a refresh (reconnect). Out app
>>>server is capable of that.. 
>>
>>Apparently you do not understand the concept that was described in the 
>>previous posts. What you propose will not work.
> 
> 
> The cached table is package state, which lives on a per session basis. So
> a reconnect will reload the cached table. What exactly do you mean by
> "will not work"?
> 
> Sincerely,
> Joachim

Make a change to a table in one session and the in-memory table becomes 
invalid in every other session and you have no means of refreshing it 
other than bouncing every single user off the system every time that 
happens. I define that as "will not work".

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