On 09/21/2011 12:58 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:13:17 -0400:
>> On 09/21/2011 11:50 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>> Well, BDB being a real database, we can do this sort of backfill operation
>>> without attending to any higher-level Subversion concepts such as revisions
>>> at all. A cursor walk through the `nodes' table should suffice:
>>>
>>> for key, value in nodes_table.rows()
>>> successor_id = key
>>> node_rev = parse_node_revision_skel(value)
>>> successors_table.add_row(node_rev.predecessor_id, successor_id)
>>
>> I should point out, though, that this approach is definitely *not* to be
>> used on a live repository.
>>
>
> ... because new entries might be inserted to NODES by concurrent
> writers, and preventing that requires an exclusive lock that would
> block concurrent readers and writers for too long?
Precisely. We need a sort of check-off list of which nodes-rev have been
processed, right? That list is as simple as "all previous rows" when using
a cursor in an offline repository, but isn't so clean otherwise.
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2011-09-21 19:18:55 CEST