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it is momentarily putting a full lock on one of many "template" tables, to
copy it to the user's priv.. now, in the overnight stuff, for some reason,
the lock file gets written, then freezes, with that error message
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the lock file that freezes is in the template table folder?


Steve Green <steve@oasistradingpost.com> wrote:
>On 09/05/2023 11:25 PM, Kevin Zawicki wrote:
>> until the lock file is deleted
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>> 
>> Do you delete it manually?
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>it's in the middle of the overnight stuff
>
>scanning a table, firing off a special process sometimes, and for years

>it's worked flawlessly hundreds of times a night.. that special process

>gets called by user changes hundreds of times a day, too
>
>it is momentarily putting a full lock on one of many "template" tables,

>to copy it to the user's priv.. now, in the overnight stuff, for some 
>reason, the lock file gets written, then freezes, with that error message
>
>testing shows that it would stop everyone dead in their tracks, til the

>lock file goes away.. fortunately 1) nobody else is online in the middle

>of the night, and 2) when the overnight stuff is finished, regardless of

>the success or failure of the individual processes, it exits from 
>paradox and that stupid lock file gets deleted
>
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