Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] Monotone NETSYNC Hook Extension & Abstraction Layer

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:40:55AM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> I'm thinking of the transaction multiplexing as a kind of a hack around 
> sqlite's lack of fine grained locking (which would allow multiple 
> concurrent transactions). Instead of adding yet another hack (manual 
> redo log, sort of) I'd rather add support for a real RDBMS [1]. For the 
> server side part of the netsync story, that would make things simpler 
> and faster.

I'm not sure the solution is as simple as that.  Postgres isn't magic;
are you sure you aren't just moving the problem around?  Which
transaction isolation level would you be planning to use?

> BTW: is netsync protocol documented somewhere? If not, I'm happy to 
> create such a document, as I'm trying to figure out the details anyway.

Just in the (occasionally exhausti(ve|ng)) comments in netsync.cc and
netcmd.*

-- Nathaniel

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