On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:03:43PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > PFC, > > > It would be nice to have ON COMMIT triggers for this use. > > > > However you can emulate ON COMMIT triggers with a modification of the > > memcache update process : > > Well, I'm back in touch with the GORDA project so possibly we can have > BEFORE COMMIT triggers after all. > > BTW, it's important to note that AFTER COMMIT triggers are logically > impossible, so please use BEFORE COMMIT so that it's clear what we're > talking about. Why are AFTER COMMIT triggers impossible? ISTM they would be useful as a means to indicate to some external process if a transaction succeeded or not. And for some things you might only want to fire the trigger after you knew that the transaction had committed. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
