Ann,

For one, I like the simplicity of the request based reference count
approach.

As such, I don't know think that the "cost" would be significant enough
to warrant another solution.


Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Harrison [mailto:harrison@...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:28 PM
> To: IB-Architect@egroups.com; IB-Architect@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] External file handling
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>
> At 06:07 PM 6/15/00 -0700, Charlie Caro wrote:
>
> >But I'd probably reference count at the request (aka statement)
> >level for the following reasons:
> >
> >1) It would be more consistent with the way we reference
> >count the existence locks for base relations and indices;
> >
> >2) Long-running connections might defeat the strategy;
>
> Both good points. I had hoped to avoid the cost of reopening
> files - particularly with applications built on autocommit,
> that release their statements and transactions after each
> execution.
>
> Ann
>
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