Re: [Monetdb-developers] Monetdb-developers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 4

Hi, I read the digests of the monetdb mailing list, which in this case took more than a month to send me this discussion. That's pretty useless.. I will switch to immediate mails. Anyway, Jennie is currently working on getting the repeatable reads transactions working. This means that by passing a request-ID you will be guaranteed that all queries and updates execute on the same database image, i.e. a transaction. In case of update requests in the same transaction, these will be executed atomically using a 2PC protocol. While this functionality is designed to be triggerered from XQuery queries, you client API could also generate the appropriate messages. It may not answer you needs regarding performance (you would send a read-request, update-request, prepare-request and commit-request), but it would answer your functional requirements AFAIS. Peter

Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:30:20 +0100 From: "Keulen, M. van (Maurice)" Subject: Re: [Monetdb-developers] [XQ] Mixing update/docmgmt/query To: monetdb-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <47E0F94C.4000709@utwente.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

Ying Zhang wrote:

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Jennie: my SOAP-messages do not come from MonetDB/XQuery, but from outside (i.e., some scripting language).

Then, an order can only be guaranteed if you, in your

scripts, send a

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message, wait for result, and send the next message. In all other cases, unfortunately, no guarantee, as an xrpc server immediately start handling a request when it's received.

Jennie

I thought so already. This is why I don't like to have to send multiple requests to do one thing (transaction). I'd rather be able to send one request to both do, say, an update and return a result, or add a document and return a result. The system so far doesn't allow me to do this, because I cannot define one query (or function in a module) that does both because of typing restrictions, and I also cannot send two separate queries in one request because of restrictions in the XRPC protocol.

Any thoughts about achieving what I want?

Maurice.

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