Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/include svn_fs.h

> > Also, TIME probably needs to be more precise than seconds since epoch,
> > because several transactions might arrive in one second. Adding the
> > microsecond count from gettimeofday() should be good enough.
>
> Why not just use an incremented counter (plus pid)? This avoids a
> system call per transaction, and is just simpler.

This is often a useful way to go, but take care that the sequence numbers
only need to be sequenced with respect to a single repository. Otherwise,
you'll find later that they become a bottleneck to distribution.

Another observation on this: generating the numbers using sequencing is a
fine idea, but unless you actually need to be able to sort on this
identifier, call it an identifier rather than a sequence number. If this is
done, it becomes possible to reduce the first problem by pre-assigning
ranges of the namespace to replicate servers.

shap
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:08 2006