C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Blair Zajac wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:53 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>
>>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>>> David Glasser wrote:
>>>>>> Anyway, I think the transaction name algorithm changed in 1.5; check
>>>>>> libsvn_fs_fs/structure for details.
>>>> Hrm. Interestingly, the test doesn't care about naming schemes. It
>>>> creates
>>>> a bunch of transactions, remembers their names, and aborts them all.
>>>> The it
>>>> does it again to see if any of the transaction names got reused.
>>>> I'll look
>>>> into this a little bit more closely.
>>> Well, we have a decision to make. If we think it's a bug that
>>> transaction
>>> names can be reused, then FSFS repositories created with Subversion
>>> 1.4 have
>>> this bug. I don't understand that ramifications of txn reuse (which
>>> is why
>>> I've Cc: Blair -- I remember this topic coming up on the list and being
>>> driven by him).
>>>
>>> If we'd rather ignore the problem, it's easy enough to make the code bail
>>> out when testing FSFS with 1.4-era repository versions. I'm happy to
>>> make
>>> that change -- just let me know.
>> I put this feature in to support my svn_fs.h and svn_repos.h RPC API. I
>> found that when you had a client begin a transaction and another one use
>> it, then the first one close it and begin another one, the second client
>> would not know that it was not using the original any more (it should
>> have received a txn does not exist error instead).
>>
>> I don't need this feature in 1.4, so having txn ids be non-unique in 1.4
>> is fine with me.
>
> So, you don't need the "feature" of having processes not accidentally
> reusing old transaction handles in 1.4.
That's right. Our svn backend is using 1.5/fsfs so our system is fine.
> Is that kind of process isolation a
> feature? It sounds to me like transactions that can be reused unaware is a
> recipe for having bogus commits get made, is it not? That sounds like a bug
> to me. But I admit to not fully understanding the interactions here. Can
> you fill me in?
Well, I don't believe it's an issue with the svn client, svnserve and
mod_dav_svn because only a single client ever works with a transaction. When
the transaction is committed or rolled back, there is no other client that is
currently running that is using that txn id, so there's no chance of misuse.
There's no program that I'm aware of that uses a txn by two or more
process/threads where the another process/thread isn't aware of the transaction
committing or rolling back.
Blair
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