On Sun, 11 May 2008 10:22:46 +0200, Philippe Marschall wrote:

> 2008/5/11, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 May 2008 19:45:57 +0200, Rob Rothwell wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I was just wondering if anyone knew what work would be required to  
>> provide
>> a
>> > threaded ODBC connection in Squeak similar to what is available for
>> > VisualWorks or Smalltalk/X.  The ability to not freeze the VM while
>> running
>> > a query would be very useful for me, but I don't even know where to  
>> start.
>> >
>>
>>  Out of curiosity, what would it be that you intend to let the users do
>> while longish queries are tickling the db?
>
> If you use Seaside: reply to other requests.

Sure, goes without saying. *but*what*else* ?

> Cheers
> Philippe
>
>>  I ask with this background in mind: over several years I headed a team  
>> of
>> developers who produced 1.5 releases/year of a
>> (fat+GUI)client<->(shared+fast)db server app with between 6
>> and 60 GB data etc, 50+ installation sites (institutions with their own  
>> db
>> server) and 100+ users, with 98% of the db data being updated over night
>> (incrementally). We brought down the app's db response time from  
>> minutes to
>> seconds but still never found any reason for using non-blocking queries,
>> because nothing much was there that could have been done by the user in  
>> the
>> meantime.
>>
>>  Do you just want to see non-freezing queries running or have some other
>> reason for that need?
>>
>>  /Klaus
>>
>>
>>
>> > Or, is it a bigger issue than just ODBC, something buried deep within  
>> the
>> VM
>> > and/or the FFI?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>>
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