[m-rev.] for review: changes to odbc.m

[Mark Brown]

On 09-May-2002, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> The motivation behind them is that there are some people in the
> Biochemistry department here at Monash who want to be able to perform IO
> in the middle of transactions.  E.g. they have queries which return many
> solutions which should be output to a file as they are returned.  The
> number of solutions is typically too big to store them all in a list and
> then do the output after the transaction finishes.

It would be useful to mention this motivation in the log message.

(Note that I haven't reviewed the change.)

Cheers,
Mark.

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