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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Negative PIDS, and SE/Online questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.164116.4259@informix.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:41:16 GMT
- References: <1isconINN965@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <1993Jan11.220300.16666@informix.com> <1993Jan12.025433.3798@informix.com>
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- Colonel Panic writes:
- >I had written:
- >>there are no lock modes or extents with SE
- >
- >Minor nit: SET LOCK MODE *is* available with SE, if the port uses kernel-level
- >record locking (although the wait time period parameter is not supported).
-
- Sloppy wording on my part; I should have said "locking levels", since what I
- was driving at was that SE does not have ROW/PAGE locking options - it always
- uses ROW (as there is no such thing as a PAGE in SE). Alan is correct that
- SET LOCK MODE TO [NOT] WAIT *IS* available on most SE ports.
-
- Standing corrected,
- Dave
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