Re: Interfaces that support cursors

Quoting Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>:

> > Ok, I did see the autocommit flag setting in DBD:Pg when I starting reading
> up
> > on the DBI/DBD interfacing methods so I guess I could recode for that.
> However,
> > how do you "maintain" the current transaction open if your script is
> writing
> > pages to the web.  Even in mod_perl I think that there is a commit after
> the
> > script ends, no?
>
> Be careful you don't waste resources by leaving transactions open forever!
>
> You can use something like PersistentPerl to make sure the script doesn't
> terminate, but to get the behavior you're looking for you could only have
> one script open at a time.  You could also do master/worker scripts
> communicating through sockets to keep the transaction open.
>
> Jon
>
>
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Absolutely- I was gonna dig into my mod_perl manual since I'm not sure if/how I
can make the HTML interfaces persist in Apache- I know the backend can (Apache
<-> Pg) but instead of increasing the complexity of things this time(all the
script does is write pages of images), I'll see how the selects with
offset/limit modifiers perform.  I'm going to check our that Persistent Perl
product for future reference too.  Thanks.

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Keith C. Perry
Director of Networks & Applications
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