new PurgeDatabase command? (was Re: NT vs Mac)

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 14170
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texte = >>How about that math ceil/floor problem, I have a site that I must have it>>on and would like to keep it on the NT. Any Idea on a fix date?>>1) Since it was never documented, we had no date set for adding the feature>2) Since we're a nice company, how about tomorrow? (beta, hasn't gone thru QA>yet, but should work fine because it's a small change)>Since Grant is feeling so generous today (:>), how about adding thatPurgeDatabase command I brought up a few weeks ago? I don't remember everseeing a response from anyone at PCS/Starnine, but at least a couple peoplechimed in about how much they would like to see such a new tag.If you don't recall my request, I will quote Ken, who reworded my requestinto a cleaner solution:>In other words, what you really would like to have is a new tag that>purges the xxx.db data from RAM *without* writing it to disk. Yes,>that would make it possible to do everything you need, automatically,>in a single template like this:>>[CloseDatabase xxx.db]>[AppleScript]>Move the xxx.db file to the trash and rename the xxx.db copy file>to xxx.db>[/AppleScript]>[PurgeDatabase xxx.db]>>It won't make any difference how many people are searching the>xxx.db while the AppleScript is working, because they will be>working off a RAM-cached version of the original database anyways, at>least until WebCat receives an [append] or [closedatabase] or>[flushdatabases] or [PurgeDatabase] command.>>And once the AppleScript is done working and the data is purged from>RAM with the [PurgeDatabase] command, you really don't have to worry>about loading the new xxx.db into RAM, because it will be loaded>automatically into RAM the first time one of your templates needs to>deal with that database again.>>And if you're really in a hurry to reload the new xxx.db file>*before* one of your users has a chance to reload it, you can easily>put a [search] or a [lookup] after the [PurgeDatabase] tag, which>will make the database reload immediately after being purged from RAM.>>It seems the critical function of this proposed tag should be simply>to purge the RAM without writing it to disk (thus my suggested>PurgeDatabase name). Everything else can be done with WebDNA's>existing capabilities and with AppleScript.>>>Sincerely, Ken GromeThanks,Dale ________________________ ______________________________| Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.com || MIS Director,WebMaster | web: http://www.dhorse.com/ || Dark Horse Comics, Inc.|Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 |\_________ID97___________|______________________________/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

>>How about that math ceil/floor problem, I have a site that I must have it>>on and would like to keep it on the NT. Any Idea on a fix date?>>1) Since it was never documented, we had no date set for adding the feature>2) Since we're a nice company, how about tomorrow? (beta, hasn't gone thru QA>yet, but should work fine because it's a small change)>Since Grant is feeling so generous today (:>), how about adding thatPurgeDatabase command I brought up a few weeks ago? I don't remember everseeing a response from anyone at PCS/Starnine, but at least a couple peoplechimed in about how much they would like to see such a new tag.If you don't recall my request, I will quote Ken, who reworded my requestinto a cleaner solution:>In other words, what you really would like to have is a new tag that>purges the xxx.db data from RAM *without* writing it to disk. Yes,>that would make it possible to do everything you need, automatically,>in a single template like this:>>[CloseDatabase xxx.db]>[AppleScript]>Move the xxx.db file to the trash and rename the xxx.db copy file>to xxx.db>[/AppleScript]>[PurgeDatabase xxx.db]>>It won't make any difference how many people are searching the>xxx.db while the AppleScript is working, because they will be>working off a RAM-cached version of the original database anyways, at>least until WebCat receives an [append] or [closedatabase] or>[flushdatabases] or [PurgeDatabase] command.>>And once the AppleScript is done working and the data is purged from>RAM with the [PurgeDatabase] command, you really don't have to worry>about loading the new xxx.db into RAM, because it will be loaded>automatically into RAM the first time one of your templates needs to>deal with that database again.>>And if you're really in a hurry to reload the new xxx.db file>*before* one of your users has a chance to reload it, you can easily>put a [search] or a [lookup] after the [PurgeDatabase] tag, which>will make the database reload immediately after being purged from RAM.>>It seems the critical function of this proposed tag should be simply>to purge the RAM without writing it to disk (thus my suggested>PurgeDatabase name). Everything else can be done with WebDNA's>existing capabilities and with AppleScript.>>>Sincerely, Ken GromeThanks,Dale ________________________ ______________________________| Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.com || MIS Director,WebMaster | web: http://www.dhorse.com/ || Dark Horse Comics, Inc.|Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 |\_________ID97___________|______________________________/ Dale LaFountain

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new PurgeDatabase command? (was Re: NT vs Mac)

1997

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