New remote backend (was Re: [Xapian-discuss] Remote databases slower than local?)

[Rafael Jorge]

On 7/15/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:32:33AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > But I have a mostly complete reworked remote backend which removes
> > unnecessary layers of classes in various places and simplifies how
> > the matcher interfaces with the remote backend so it might be better
> > for you to look at that than the current code.
>
> OK, I've tied up the loose ends and have just committed this to SVN
> (revision 7142).  There are bootstrapped snapshot tarballs here:
>
> http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/trunk/
>
> The remote protocol has been rebuilt from scratch, so you'll need to
> upgrade clients and servers together.
>
> Most things are now supported (including writing to remote databases
> if the server was run with --writable).  You can't currently open
> postlists, and you can't use replace_document or delete_document with a
> termname - not for any good reason, I've just not implemented these
> yet.


Olly, I love you...='D, thx a lot for it

I've implemented a new "remotetcp" testsuite backend which gives us
> rather better test coverage for the remote backend.  This is currently a
> little temperamental - e.g.  tests occassionally fail because the server
> from the previous test hasn't had quite enough time to shut down.
>
> The "prog" variant of the remote backend is now useful outside the
> testsuite.  For example, you can run it across ssh to provide
> authenticated and encrypted connections to remote databases.
>
> All the testsuite passes when run under the remote backend (tests which
> would try to use unimplemented features are just rigged up to "SKIP")
> but it's not had any real world use.  So if you use the remote backend,
> it would be useful if you could give it a try.
>
> I'm going to be away from regular (or at least daily) email for the next
> month, but I'll be checking in when I can.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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