updating a person object

On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Therefore, sending a mail containing a delete followed by a creation should be 
> safe (the
> only possibility for it to go wrong would be if between the processing of the 
> deletion and the creation an
> update taking place at the same time grabs the old nic handle. This is 
> extremely unlikely and impossible to do on purpose since it depends on machine 
> load, etc).

It is not extremely unlikely as handles are reused immediately after
deletion. To my knowledge the handle with the smallest number is 
assigned to new persons, so the only constraint to be met is that
the initials are the same.


> Once again, if the object in the deletion is referred to by other DB objects 
> the deletion will fail. But in this case, so would the creation immediately 
> after it, since the nic handle would be in use.

Are you sure that this feature is enabled on the 'production system' ?


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