From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T15:06:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid ODBC!

Sean: I like the idea of a seperate component that handles nothing but
ID generation. Properly done, it could easily extend to other useful
applications (sessions IDs for non-RDBMS-backed webapps, etc.).

Since you could always just increment the counter again whenever a
database transaction failed and had to be retried, I support you
wouldn't really even need to manage the two operation under a single
transactional context.

Now the only question is what underlying storage engine to
use...Berkeley DB? CDB? Flat files? PStore?

Okay, looks like I have a good weekend project now.

Lennon