Heads up on "reindex"....

[Bruce Easton]

Bruce wrote:

> 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.  

call it rxmaint  :)

> 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.