Re: SQL indices a WC format bump and 1.7

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 13:18, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but in a scenario like this where we want to just
> change some of the indexes, aren't we able to just bump the WC format
> on the fly automatically?  IOW, can't we just make a format 30 with
> all these index changes and have it automatically upgrade any format
> 29 WC it comes across?

We cannot bump the format during the 1.7.x series because 1.7.0 would
not understand format N+1 produced by (say) 1.7.2.

One thing that we could do: have 1.7.x "understand" all formats from
29 through 39. We only make changes that are both forward and backward
compatible (e.g. presence/absence of an index does not affect 1.7.x
from using the wc.db). For 1.8.0, we autobump to format 40 with our
various changes.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-09-02 22:56:44 CEST