On 20 February 2020 18:18:52 CET, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>if you have a read/write DB, then the changes you make to the DB are
>also visible, right?  it's not a static snapshot in that sense.

Ehm, not the behavior I've seen while I was testing it out, but that may have been my fault then?


>I think you're asking about a situation where you have a read-only DB,
>and someone else has modified the database in the meantime.  Is that
>correct?

Yeah, something along those lines.

>In that case, it might also be nice to be able to detect *when* some
>other change has been made, so that you can perform such a reopen.

That'd be great yes.

Thanks for the follow up.

Cheers,
Reto

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