> > > Anyway, you might be better off looking into using the scheduler, or a > > third-party task queue like Celery (a web2py Celery plugin was started > at > > some point, though not sure it is complete). > > I don't understand, how will that let me do a read-modify-update > transaction? It seems as if for_update is precisely what I need to do > that. >
I thought your original goal was to set up a task queue -- those suggestions are specialized for that purpose. Anthony
