Re: [mv] How/when does MV reload new tables? - ANYONE?

[Shawn Butler - Blue Planet Corp <postmaster@thetechpage.com>]

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On Thu, 23 March 2000, Shawn Butler - Blue Planet Corp wrote:

Hello everyone.

Im putting together a catalog with a few rather large
tables of product. All of them are asc files for right
now.

I was reading the docs and saw:

  More than one database may be used as a products 
  database. If the catalog directive ProductFiles 
  is set to a space-separated list of valid MiniVend 
  database identifiers, those databases will be
  searched (in the order specified) for any items that 
  are ordered, or for product information (as in the 
  [price code] and [field code] tags). 

  When the database table source file (i.e. products.txt)
  changes after import or edit, the DBM database is 
  re-built upon the next user access. No restart of the
  server is necessary. 

This sounds great for my situation. But the my question is,
when I have multiple tables listed as part of my products
database (maybe 10 or so) and I update one of them, will
all of the tables be reloaded, or just the one that changed?

I guess I just dont fully understand how and when new tables
are reloaded.

If it reloads them all, it would take way too long. I am trying
to think of a way to avoid having multiple catalogs. Using
multiple catalogs would solve the reload issue, but then I would
have to figure out some way to allow a customer to buy items
from multiple catalogs with only one session/checkout.
If changing the database on 
 
Thanks for any help!
Shawn Butler
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