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Re: svn commit: r1331883 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/svnadmin/main.c

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:14:02 +0200

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:

> Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 19:32:57 +0200:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:58:56 +0300:
> > > > stefan2_at_apache.org wrote on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 09:12:49 -0000:
> > > > > Author: stefan2
> > > > > Date: Sun Apr 29 09:12:48 2012
> > > > > New Revision: 1331883
> > > > >
> > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1331883&view=rev
> > > > > Log:
> > > > > SvnAdmin should always have revprop caching enabled such that
> > > > > the infrastructure is being set up to notify *other* processes of
> > > > > changes done by e.g. setrevprop.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > What happens if 'svnadmin1.7 setrevprop' is run while a 1.8 server is
> > > running? Will the 1.8 server miss svnadmin1.7's changes because the
> > > latter doesn't have revprop caching enabled?
> > >
> >
> > Yes. To use revprop caching, all applications
> > accessing the same repository must be 1.8+.
>
> This does not seem to be documented.
>

Will update the release notes.

> (It also has the pretty odd side effect that it's not safe to run
> 'svnadmin1.7 setrevprop' and 'svnadmin1.8 dump' concurrently on the
> same repository...)
>

That's a misrepresentation of what is going on.

Running svnadmin setrevprop and svnadmin dump
concurrently, has never had a well-defined behavior.
I.e. the propset may or may not have shown up in
the dump (basically a race condition). The same
thing is true for 1.8 and any combination of 1.8 and
older tools.

However, if you have a long-running process like
a server, that race condition extends now extends
over its whole lifetime. I.e. once a revprop got read,
any change to its value by a pre-1.8 tool may never
get detected.

-- Stefan^2.

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