[htdig-dev] Re: Found it! (Was: Bug :( )

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

Greetings Neal,

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:35, Neal Richter wrote:

>   Do you know for certain that the environment is the same?

Isn't that the meaning of passing the DB_ENV argument to =20
CDB_db_create()?  I'm not sure how else to make two databases share=20
an environment.

> It would be nice if I could duplicate this bug, but I've never been
> able to.

As Geoff pointed out recently, anyone with a sourceforce account can=20
get a compile farm account.  That has a mac which had the problem. =20
See=20
<http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3D762&group_id=3D1>.

>   This smells like something that should be handled in the WordDB
> class at the DB API level.

Hmm...  Perhaps, but the original aim of the compression was to make=20
it transparent.  Since it creates its own database, that seems to me=20
to be the place to fix things.

I agree that totally disabling the environment is a bit drastic.  It=20
should be possible to create a new environment containing *only* the=20
weak compression database, but with all "shared" fields (other than=20
the memory pool) copied from the environment of the main database's=20
environment.  How would that sound?

Regarding implementing a separate cache, that is certainly possible,=20
but it has the disadvantage of duplicating existing code.  (I'm a big=20
fan of avoiding code bloat.)

Cheers,
Lachlan
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