Re: [Monotone-devel] use case for :memory: database?

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 01/08/2011 05:02 PM, Thomas Keller wrote:
> Am 08.01.11 17:29, schrieb Stephen Leake:
>> I'm adding a description of the global options to monotone.texi.
>>
>> What is the use case for :memory: database?
> 
> One is for example that it gives you a throw-away database for remote
> automate actions: If you (as a client) connect to a remote server from
> which you query data, netsync requires some server identification
> chatter, but since you do not actually need a local database, au remote
> and au remote_stdio do fallback to :memory: by default and forget the
> server key after the connection has been closed.
> 
> There might be other use cases for throw-away databases as well, but I
> don't remember any thats not of academic nature...

The initial reason was for unit testing of things that spawn and talk to
automate stdio instances.

-- 
Timothy

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