Re: When to use Berkeley transactions.

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 02:02, Branko Èibej wrote:
> Because we want to isolate node records from deltification. When we
> deltify a file's contents, we create a completely new string (with a new
> key) and delete the old one, but only modify the representation record
> without changing its key.

But if we're already locking the representation (using transactions or
not), why can't we just rewrite the representation--without changing its
key, of course--in multiple steps? (Unless there's some complication
with doing that in the presence of duplicate keys.)

(That might mean keeping representations locked for a longer period of
time during redeltification. But it would mean one less layer of
indirection every time we access a representation, which has to make
more of a difference.)

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Received on Fri Feb 21 08:17:39 2003