[Xapian-devel] Full MVCC in Brass

Adam Sjøgren asjo at koldfront.dk
Wed Aug 20 09:22:57 BST 2014


Austin Clements <aclements at csail.mit.edu> writes:

> Full MVCC would enable Xapian to keep any database revision valid as
> long as any reader is using it, thus eliminating the dreaded
> DatabaseModifiedError and simplifying application logic.

This would also make it easier to spool a consistent backup to tape of
an index that is being used (updated), right?


  Best regards,

    Adam

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