C. Michael Pilato wrote on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:08:25 -0500: > On 12/15/2011 10:24 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > That's an interesting approach. But can we do without the log files? > > Is there an easy way to, given N, capture all the table rows that belong > > to revisions youngest than rN? > > FWIW, the logfile approach also wouldn't provide append-only operation at > the BDB table level. I'm not quite sure where this append-only requirement > is coming from, though.
It's not a requirement from proposed solutions to #4081. It's an assumption that my back-of-the-envelope algorithm makes. (and it comes from me being more familiar with FSFS than with BDB)