Re: [Sks-devel] DB_INIT_LOCK problems?

[Peter Palfrader]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Yaron Minsky wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:30:47 -0400, Jason Harris <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:10:40PM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:15:45 -0400, Jason Harris <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > No, one single-threaded process writing a single record which updates
> > multiple pages will deadlock its own self, due to the internal design
> > of BDB's locking subsystem, even if it is the only process using a
> > database.
> > 
> 
> Freaky.  I guess that means you always need to run the deadlock
> detector whenever you're using locking.  And, further, that you need
> to tolerate interrupts from the deadlock system.
> 
> Sigh.  Seems like a royal pain to get this all working properly.

I wouldn't mind if sks used a proper database like postgres. :)

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