[Zope] MySQL and Zope

Hannu Krosing hannu@tm.ee
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:11:50 +0000


gtk wrote:
> 
> If MySQL gets transactional support, will we be able to co-ordinate its
> transactions with those of Zope?

Is there any hope of it happening ?

> Picture a method in a Zope class which updates a MySQL row and touches some
> Zope objects. Zope will roll back the entire lot if one of the operations on
> those objects fails, but as I understand it Zope doesn't provide any hooks
> [yet] to tell MySQL to roll back the transaction performed on it.

AFAIK it does if for all real RDBMs (Oracle, PostgreSQL,...), it is part of 
the DA and thus should be transparent to developers/users.

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Hannu