Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:34:59 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <863b233dq4.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <f219f6$3ls$1@sea.gmane.org> (Ivan Voras's message of "Fri\, 11 May 2007 10\:28\:16 %2B0200") References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org> <4643C7DB.6000408@elischer.org> <f219f6$3ls$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes: > You can inspect s sqlite database with the provided utility. Unless the > database gets corrupted (which it tries to avoid by respecting ACID), ACID is not something a database "respects", it is a set of guarantees that it provides to the application. Avoiding database corruption is a necessary requirement for, rather than a consequence of, ACID. Perhaps you mean that SQLite tries to avoid database corruption by using locks, and either scatter-gather writes or copy-on-write, and flushing the file between transactions, to ensure consistency? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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