Re: End of session clean-up

On 2011-12-03 17:41 +0000, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On 3 Dec 2011, at 16:57, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > Hello all. I need to purge old records from application tables > > when a session expires. How do I register a callback with the > > end-of session-garbage collection system ? > > session_set_save_handler() lets me override the native garbage > > collection, not *add* to it, as far as I can tell. > > You would need to implement a complete session handler to add > your own functionality into the GC. Rats. > However, the fact that you want to do this begs the question, > why are you storing what sounds like session data in > application tables instead of storing them in the session? This "session data" is similar to a purchase basket. It references tuples from the static tables. If it's outside of the database, we lose the benefits of a relational DBMS. -- André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/