Ah no, I'm not talking about changing it in runtime, I'm talking about specifying the path on database creation, for example when CreateDB command is executed. There shouldn't be concurrency problems at the moment of database creation, correct?
-Vladimir On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:41 AM Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right, the option is global. As BaseX has been designed to serve > concurrent requests, it would introduce unexpected side effects of the path > was changed at runtime. > > If you are careful, you can try to change the path by assigning a new > value to Context.soptions. > > > Vladimir Churyukin <vlad...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 16. Juli 2020, > 17:33: > >> Yes, I've seen that option. >> But there is no way to set it per database, correct? >> I'm asking because by nature our operations are ad-hoc, we don't really >> "startup" the instances, >> we create a database, process the data, then destroy the database. >> Is there some internal limitation why this option needs to be global? >> >> thank you, >> -Vladimir >> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 4:36 AM Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Vladimir, >>> >>> The DBPATH option is the one you’ll need to assign. As it’s a global >>> option, it should be assigned at startup time [1]. >>> >>> Best, >>> Christian >>> >>> [1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 6:11 AM Vladimir Churyukin <vlad...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > We have a data transformation pipeline that works with XML files of >>> different sizes, sometimes big (up to several gigabytes). >>> > We are using BaseX to do the transformations. >>> > For smaller files we use the MAINMEM option, because the whole >>> database can fit in memory. But for some files we can't do that, but all >>> databases we create are simply disposable, and we'd like to control where >>> we put them, and destroy them after the processing. >>> > Is there a special option or any other way to specify where particular >>> database's files will reside? >>> > How to specify that when we call CreateDB command? >>> > >>> > thank you, >>> > Vladimir >>> >>
