Re: multithread in INFORMIX, how?

sea wrote: > > HI, > I have a long transaction, says LOTZ28, and several short but critical > transactions. If these short txs are issued after that long one, I could > wait a long time. So I need to create a multi-threaded env to let one thread > take care the long tx and let other threads to take care the short ones. > Could anyone give me some advice? > I believe that 7.2 will support client threading, which sound like what you are asking for. Unless you have developed threaded applications before, I do not think threads will be the panacea you are looking for. I also understand that 7.2 is not released yet. Perhaps you could fork off a few separate processes to do the independent queries and join the results back together later by using files or pipes to write out the results.. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Walden Hewlett Packard Product Generation Information Systems 1501 Page Mill Road, M/S 4U-6 Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 857-3899 FAX (415) 857-8234 --------------------------------------------------------------------------