Philip Martin wrote:
> "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net> writes:
>
>> Perhaps load should be acquiring an exclusive lock? I doubt the loader
would
>> be particularly happy if someone managed to fit in a commit in the middle
of
>> a load.
>
> By "loader" do you mean the user, or the load process?
load process.
Sorry to be unclear.
> I've tried loading a dump, one that includes copies, and inserting
> commits (of items not affected by the dump) during the load doesn't
> cause any problems that I can see. All the revisions adjusted to cope
> with the "extra" commits. Obviously if I were to modify an item that
> is going to subsequently get modified/copied by the dump it would be
> different, but that's to be expected.
>
> If the repository administrator does take the repository off line, in
> order to get exclusive access, then editing the DB_CONFIG file doesn't
> seem like much of a problem to me.
Editing DB_CONFIG is harder to automate than a simple option.
I suggest resuming this discussion when the fs abstraction work is complete.
Max.
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Received on Thu Apr 1 00:10:37 2004