> I usually prefer the following trick for preventing long locking
> times. On every
> table I define a timestamp field which is updated every time the record is
> written to the database. If a user edits a record (without
> locking) and commit his changes
> the timestamp is returned from the client program unchanged. The program
> reads the record again for update and compares the timestamp from
> the database
> and the timestamp from the user program. If the timestamp has changed
> in the meantime the record was updated from someone else and the
> transaction will be rejected.
What happens if someone else updates the record *just* after the record is
reread for update and timestamp compared?
- Andrew
