[lug] Doing your own transactions

[D. Stimits]

Ken Kinder wrote:
> 
> Can I have some opinions on the idea of writing your own
> transaction layer into a web application that uses
> trnasaction-challanged databases? Has anyone tried this or
> can give me some horror stories I can discourage my boss
> with?
> 
> I _really_ don't think it's a good idea.
> 
> --
> Ken Kinder
> www.kenkinder.com
> 

Can you give an example of what kind of change is intended? Is this
change to the web server itself, or a cgi program, etc? What kind of
database is used now, and what kind of limit is being hit?