Heads up on "reindex"....

[Bruce Easton]

Jay Ashworth wrote Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:22 AM:

[..]
> While filePro makes it easy for end-users to *add* indexes to files to
> make it easier for them to search for things 'their way'... it's always
> annoyed me (WISHLIST) that there is no way for application writers to
> *lock* indexes so that the end user cannot touch them -- since as we
> all know, extending an index *one character* can cause an entire
> application to blow sky high.
>
[..]

Now that you mention it, Jay, it does seem a bit strange that as
over-zealous as the creation password implementation has become
with wildcarded filenames (causing enforcement to bleed over into
runtime programs) that it does not also encompass index maintenance.

Perhaps filepro needs a new separate standard index-maint. interface
that could be used by clients that would only rebuild indexes.  Then
the current dxmaint interface could be modified to employ, as you
said, some sort of locking mechanism or password control (for the
adding/modification side of things).  Of course, since I feel the
creation password implementation has gone astray, if passwording
is considered, I would not suggest using it.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.