[AgileWiki] a change of plans!

[Bill la F. <laf...@ya...>]

I was in the process of doing a release this morning,
when the database died with an EOF error.

Using rebuild, I quickly learned that the problem
could be reproduced. So I have a (somewhat large) test
case.

Now by using a binary search, I was able to reduce the
number of transactions such that the database dies
after a rebuild of n trnasactions. (It dies when a
client connects, presumably when a new session is
created.) But everything runs fin if only the first
n-1 transactions are used when rebuilding the
database. 

Of course, there's nothing special about that nth
transacton. So my guess is that it might be a split
operation which is going wrong. But its hard to say at
this point.

So anyway, I've got something to work on. And
considering how much data I had to enter for this
error to occur, I expect that fixing this one bug will
significantly increase database reliability. (No, I'm
not saying that it is the last bug. Only that the next
one will likely be less frequent and subsequently
harder to find.)

This may not be an easy bug to track down. But it is
now reproducable and that is a really big help.

Bill


		
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