Re: [drupal-devel] LOCK vs. SELECT FOR UPDATE

Khalid B wrote:

If connections are on a per client, then I am with Moshe on this.

Let us do it The Right Way (TM).

thanks for the kindness. please excuse my brief rant aimed at noone in particular ... there is nothing wrong with our home grown sequences. we currently support RDMS that don't supply sequences of their own, or those that can't reliably return a LAST_INSERT_ID. There is no single "Right Way" to do sequences; these are engineering tradeoffs. I don't think it is helpful to frame engineering decisions this way. I feel similarly when people describe eval() as 'evil' or javascript as 'evil'. broad comments like these do not advance the conversation.