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Re: Multiple entires for the same key in the strings table

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:37 -0400

Vyacheslav V. Zholudev wrote:
> Michael, you said that you used to write data into one row in BDB. How
> did you do that? In particular, how did you accumulate the chunks which
> were got from a stream? Am I right that you had to cache everything
> somewhere and then when the whole fulltext was comprised, you flushed
> the whole fulltext data to BDB?

Nope. Subversion has never allowed itself to hold all of a file's contents
in memory -- that's just too risky scalability-wise. We used BDB's partial
value access logic to simply append the new bits to the existing
(contents-in-progress) value.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand

Received on 2008-07-14 16:17:50 CEST

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