in reply to Is it possible to implement Deadlock Retry Mechanism with Sybase::CTlib in BLK Copy Mode ?

It's been a while since I last used Sybase::*, but IIRC, its API is just a thin layer over the C library. Which means that if you can do it in C, you can do it in Perl in the same way.

I've always found the Sybase documentation quite good; I'd start searching in there whether it can be done, and if it can be done, how. The translation of C function calls to Perl subroutine calls should be easy.

  • Comment on Re: Is it possible to implement Deadlock Retry Mechanism with Sybase::CTlib in BLK Copy Mode ?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Is it possible to implement Deadlock Retry Mechanism with Sybase::CTlib in BLK Copy Mode ?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2011 at 14:15 UTC

    Thanks Monk,

    If my understanding is correct - even if it can be done in C and then translated into perl, means we have to either touch Sybase::CTlib or subclass it, is that correct?

    Just to be clear, could you please confirm that we don't have any way to achieve implementing retry on deadlock situations by using just the existing functionalities of Sybase::CTlib?

[reply]
      That's not at all what I have been saying. In fact, what I said was "if it's possible to do it using the C library, it ought to be possible using Sybase::CTlib". Or, phrased differently, if it's not possible using the C library, it's not possible using the Perl layer to said library.
[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom