On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:43, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> philip_at_apache.org writes:
>
>> Author: philip
>> Date: Wed Apr 14 16:35:11 2010
>> New Revision: 934008
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=934008&view=rev
>> Log:
>> * subversion/libsvn_subr/sqlite.c
>> (svn_sqlite__hotcopy): Use the SQLite backup interface if available.
>>
>> Modified:
>> subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/sqlite.c
>
> The backup method works but is measurably slower in my tests than than
> the plain copy under a lock; the benefit should be better concurrency.
>
> I don't know which is better: the faster hotcopy that blocks writers
> or the slower hotcopy that allows writers to progress? At the moment
> it's a compile time decision based on the version of SQLite but that's
> not a good way to decide whether we should be using this feature. I
> think it's too obscure to make it configurable on a per-repository
> basis so I don't really know what we should do.
To me, "hot copy" means that you are trying to continue operation.
Thus, the concurrency is needed.
I don't see that a hot copy needs to be blazing fast. Just concurrent.
Cheers,
-g
Received on 2010-04-14 18:46:17 CEST