Record locking

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:04:49AM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> One other minor point. Richard's code that goes out to check if the number
> has been used before... well, that makes _no_ sense to me. Why would you
> have to check such a thing? If you are only supplying the next highest
> number out of a control file in the way shown above... there is no need to
> check whether the number you've just retrieved has ever been used... how
> could it be?

I can't.

But trapping "can't happen" conditions has proven very useful for me in
the past.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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