Re: Subversion's use of Berkeley DB [#11511]

> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:38, Keith Bostic wrote:
>> 3. Subversion isn't recovering the database after application or
>> system failure -- it's only running recovery if Berkeley DB
>> explicitly returns DB_RUNRECOVERY.
>
> I'd like to point out that, in principle, anything Subversion can do to
> work around this problem (in its current architecture) could be done by
> the Berkeley DB library itself. Perhaps more robustly, as Subversion's
> BDB tables could conceivably be accessed without going through the
> Subversion libraries.

This is true, and it's a fair question to ask why Berkeley DB
doesn't provide a solution to this problem out-of-the-box.

The reason is because Subversion is, to my knowledge, unique
among Berkeley DB applications. I know of no other software
using DB that is:

        + also a library (and a library where the people writing
          the library don't also write the application software
          using the library),

        + used in a multi-process model, and

        + called from a variety of different languages and APIs.

I'll make a deal -- if someone in the Subversion development
group will help me build and test a solution, I'll try and
maintain the resulting code in the Berkeley DB distribution.

Regards,
--keith

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