[whatwg] SQL API - SQLVersionChangeCallback vs SQLTransactionCallback

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
> 
> I may be completely alone in this one, but is schema versioning as part 
> of the API really a necessary thing? I mean, it's convenient, but is it 
> necessary? Just trying to keep it simple.

In particular with the offline stuff, it is highly likely that code will 
be running and interacting with the database in one window when a script 
tries to update the schema, and we don't want authors to have to implement 
some primitive locking facility of their own to prevent old versions 
corrupting the data. I think it's relatively light-weight yet provides 
something that could end up being really useful in certain cases.

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