On Mar 28, 2012, at 20:07 , Filipe David Manana wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mar 28, 2012, at 19:58 , Filipe David Manana wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Stefan Kögl <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi everybody, >>>> >>>> I just wanted to raise some attention to the DB compaction bug discovered >>>> today >>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1451 >>>> >>>> While I initially discovered the bug with a 1.1.2 instance, this could >>>> also affect 1.2. I think this issue should be resolved before closing >>>> the vote. Filipe already provided a patch, so it shouldn't take too >>>> long. >>> >>> Stefan, the patch is only for 1.2.x (and master). >>> That exact issue can't happen on 1.1.x releases, as it's related to >>> code added in 1.2.x. >>> >>> I'm voting -1 on this round just because of this issue. >> >> Filipe, can you explain how frequent this issue would be? I can't quite >> discover the circumstances from the patch & commit message. > > Very frequent on some environments / work loads. It's highly timing > sensitive. Happens if the compactor inserts the last batch of btree > records in less than 500ms after the previous batch.
That sounds common enough to me that we should avoid shipping this in 1.2.0 Cheers Jan --
