Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone evaluation in commercial project [long]

[Gerald W. Lester]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:54:16PM +0200, rghetta wrote:
>  

> > > From a quick look at the sources everything seems pretty standard SQL,
> > but obviously performance is another thing.
> >    
>
> Porting monotone to use a different database is certainly possible,
> but probably a bad idea.  It's not safe to have multiple monotone
> processes running against the same database, not because sqlite isn't
> up to this, but simply because we haven't done the careful auditing of
> the monotone source that would be required to make this safe... 
BTW, multiple processes can access the same SQLite database -- but, just 
like concurrent access to any database, the code must be built to work 
with such access,

I personally don't think this is a good idea in general, and definitely 
a bad idea for monotone.

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