On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:09:11 +0200, Janko Mivšek wrote:

> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
>>>>  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* ?
>
> For web apps it is really important not to block a whole web app server  
> while processing a single SQL request. What else? It can be another SQL  
> request running in parallel, or just building some web pages from a  
> cached data, etc etc. To repeat, threaded ODBC or something similar is  
> really needed for Squeak to be used in web app world.

Yes web, yes seaside, yes generic_term_for_web_framework *but*what*else* ?

> Janko
>