Dear Alain,
I think you have analyzed the problem very well. As you say, in the
postmodern codebase in the file query.lisp, the macro "doquery"
utilizes the *database* variable with no obvious way to override or
specify it. I would have to study some more to be absolutely sure,
but it does seem
AP> When I tried the above, it blew up when I added the
ENSURE-TRANSACTION
clause; because all of a sudden the DOQUERY found itself querying
on the "wrong" database. (I'm assuming ENSURE-TRANSACTION binds
something like a *DATABASE* var which got mistakenly inherited by
