Multi Row Fetch Experiences (2)

A second issue with multi-row fetch (see previous posts) affects application design.

With a normal READ EACH, each row is fetched one at a time, so if the row fetched has been affected by previous processing within the READ EACH, the fetched row's column values will be up to date.

However with a multi-row fetch, blocks of n rows are fetched into an array at the same time. If you then update row n+1 whilst processing row n, then when you come to process row n+1, the values in the entity action views will not be the latest values since they are current as of the time that they were fetched and hence not include any updated values.

This should be a rare occurrence, but worth bearing in mind when deciding if multi-row fetch is applicable.