-v processing

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> On 10/21/2013 12:19 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> > Can one delete a record in -v select processing?
> >
> > If the records meet specific requirements, they need to be deleted.
> > I'd rather do this in a select process and not during the report output.
> 
> "What happened when you tried it?"
> 
> I'm not sure if filePro is going to stop you, but you do have to realize
> that you are not in update mode during sort/select, and it's quite possible
> for someone to have that record in update mode.

If you're suggesting, Ken, that what protects a DELETE from whacking a
record someone else is updating is that the process which does the DELETE
*has the record open itself in update mode*, rather than that the protection
is actually the DELETE routine checking for that, let me gently suggest
that that's a design deficiency... :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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