Delete

Question from: Claudia Rolker rolker@fzi.de Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:26:06 +0200

What is the purpose of the Delete Service? Result sets are deleted automatically after the z-association is closed. When would it make sense to delete results during a z-association?

Servers often have a limit to the number of named result sets they can store. A server may unilaterally delete a result set, particularly when the limit is reached. So it makes good sense for a client to delete a result set it no longer needs, to forestall the possibility that a result set that it does still need may be unilaterally deleted.

Some servers charge to maintain results, so deleting a result set as soon as it is no longer needed may help reduce cost.