Feasibility Study for Potential fP Software - Part #3 (final for the day)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:31:22PM -0500, Keith' Weatherhead wrote:
> >Can I assume by time delta, you're simply talking timezone offsets from GMT
> >so that you can run a system in EDT and one in PDT and adjust the data so
> >that it's the same at the time level?  Or are you talking time delta as far
> >detailed (in the transaction log you're mentioning) as what NTP would give
> >you for an offset?  I'm thinking the former, as I see no need for anything
> >as accurate as the latter, given the fact filePro itself doesn't track
> >things that accurately.  Just making sure...
> 
> What about servers that are more than a minute off, time clock wise. 

If you are the systems administrator in a multi-server environment,
making sure your servers and clients are time-synched is *your*
responsibility; not application programmers.  You should have alarms go
off if your NTP feeds break. 

Literally: ringing bells.  It's that important.

> I just don't see it as a way to retire.  As I said about, with the 
> right specification... do you think you could get multiple sites to 
> agree to fund/purchase?  If not... it is a "personal, spare time, 
> bragging rights project" as I said in a earlier post.  Personally, I 
> wouldn't be worried about calls from a lawyer at this time.

The "calls from lawyers" I was suggesting were my notional response by
customer to breakage if Mark tried to *replace* PgSQL by implementing
directly in filePro, as oppposed to ripping the engine off the bottom,
and replacing it with a link to a *real* database.

50 PhD's have put almost 500 manyears into PgSQL; you don't wanna do
that all over again.

> I would try to put a small mock-up together and determine if it 
> *could*  be made solid enough to offer to others.

It can't.

Cheers,
-- jra
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