Oh yes,

And this is why I love FB, for things like this :-)

Thanks!

>It should work fine, but why? Concurrency control for multi-user
>read/write databases has been around for more than 30 years - it's
>pretty reliable.

Ann, it seems like a practicable way for the updater program to get exclusive access for metadata updates.

Helen




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