On 19/01/2010 1:13 AM, Vincenzo Romano wrote:
> Another case, Tom, could be when the file is updated from a non-DB
> application and you need to synchronize
> the data with other DB applications ...
How can that work without a transactional file system, though? If the
external process writes to the file while you're half-way through
reading it, what's the database to do? In general, how do external
tables cope with the fact that they're on non-transactional storage?
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Craig Ringer