Printing report when a record is being updated

[Scott Walker]

Ken,

The -ro flag indeed works like I wanted.  The main problem I see is the
generating output part to report preparation takes about 10 times as long
with -ro set as without.

Is that to be expected?

Regards,

Scott


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> bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:15 AM
> To: Scott Walker
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> Subject: Re: Printing report when a record is being updated
> 
> On 1/10/2013 4:32 PM, Scott Walker wrote:
> > I am printing a customer list.
> >
> > Someone else is updating a customer record and thus has that one
> > record locked..
> >
> > Is there a way for me to get fp to just get the data for that customer
> > record from disk (I'm not trying to update it) and thus get the report
> > to continue without having to wait on the other user to release the
> > record lock.  I know I will be getting the data from before whatever
> > changes they make.
> 
> If you are not updating records, I believe passing *report the "-ro"
> (read-only) flag will turn off record locking as well.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody
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