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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:55:46 -0700
From: "Patrick Linskey" <plinskey@gmail.com>
To: dev@openjpa.apache.org
Subject: Re: Two questions about OpenJPA impl.
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> 1) Does OpenJPA create before images for rollback? Or is the transaction
> rollback functionality just implemented in the JDO closed source? As
> Reece mentions, we'd need before image values on relationships for
> dependency calculation in case of unique keys.

OpenJPA can do that, yes. You need to configure things accordingly,
but the feature is definitely there. See the RetainValues property.

> 2) Why are updates ignored (not re-ordered) in ConstraintUpdateManager,
> if there are *no* delete-then-insert-same-pk?

The graph is walked, which will potentially re-order the updates. What
bit of code are you referring to?

> 3) Can foreign keys be used in the WHERE clause for updates/deletes?

Yes -- what type of query are you looking for in particular?

-Patrick

On 6/7/07, Markus Fuchs <Markus.Fuchs@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> could somebody please answer these questions?
>
> 1) Does OpenJPA create before images for rollback? Or is the transaction
> rollback functionality just implemented in the JDO closed source? As
> Reece mentions, we'd need before image values on relationships for
> dependency calculation in case of unique keys.
>
> 2) Why are updates ignored (not re-ordered) in ConstraintUpdateManager,
> if there are *no* delete-then-insert-same-pk?
>
> 3) Can foreign keys be used in the WHERE clause for updates/deletes?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -- markus.
>


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Patrick Linskey
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