Dennis, > A full client/server RDBM should never be affected by an abort > of a client program.
What you describe is on the single query level. What I was thinking of was having several queries that /should/ work as a single unit, but could get interrupted (because of the OPs ctrl-c). Yes, Chris was probably right about using a transaction to fix that, but that has to be learned - knowledge I do not take for granted with a hobbyist. > So... (And I know many despise it, but it IS easy to set up) that > leaves running ...some ... server process. I think that would make the matter even worse. It could be silently doing some housekeeping work, and a hard shutdown of the 'puter (for whatever reason) could easily trash the whole database. And yes, I'm playing the advocate of the devil there. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
