On Oct 10, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Oleg Broytmann wrote:

>
>> That's not what you want.  Durus doesn't provide counters.
>> That would be provided by an application-level object.
>>
>
>    The problem is that application is on the client side, and there
> are a
> few forked processes, and there is no locking on the server-side.

The transactions act like locks.  The process that completes a
commit has, in effect, been holding a lock on the objects it changed.