[Lets move discussion to dev]

hwri...@tigris.org writes:

> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3596

Summary: FSFS hotcopy doesn't handle SQLite databases properly, this
affects the new revprop packing db and the 1.6 rep sharing db.

> We can set the minimum required SQLite version such that the backup
> API is available.  Is it still experimental in more recent versions
> of SQLite?

Yes.

> [We should normally be pretty liberal with not using too-new
> dependency versions, but since we've made it possible for users to
> compile SQLite directly into Subversion, I think we can reasonably
> make an exception in its case.]

Can we do that for 1.6?  Most distributions probably use the system
SQLite and it won't be new enough.

> The rep sharing cache is just a cache, and can be truncated or
> deleted without impact on the correctness of the system.

That's a way to fix a corrupt hotcopy but I don't think it prevents
the corruption.

-- 
Philip

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