[cvsnt] Re: Repository auditing with Oracle

[Paulo Soares]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:22 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Repository auditing with Oracle
> 
> Paulo Soares wrote:
> > If I assume that there's only one writer the sequence 
> > can even be generated internally by the cvsnt app and do 
> away with all 
> > this identity need.
> 
> You cannot make that assumption - that's why you need the atomicity. 
> You need to be able to get an ID for an inserted row in a manner that 
> always returns the correct one no matter how many writers 
> there are on 
> the database.
> 

That's why the sentence begins with an "if".

Paulo