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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Daniele Zuco <zu...@istat.it> on 2010/07/05 08:39:23 UTC

Subversion with Berkley DB

Hi
I would like to try storing my repository using the database Oracle
Berkley DB.
Up to now i have only used FSFS repositories and i don't see a lot of
people interested in Berkley DB.
There are some documentation about it or there are some limits (i mean
number of version betwen subversion server and berkley db server)?
Thanks
daniele z.

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Re: Subversion with Berkley DB

Posted by Daniele Zuco <zu...@istat.it>.

Hyrum K. Wright ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Daniele Zuco <zu...@istat.it> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>> I would like to try storing my repository using the database Oracle Berkley
>>> DB.
>>>       
>> Why? Berkeley DB is deprecated for many reasons, and has been since at
>> least Subversion 1.3. It does not operate well on network filesystems,
>> for example. It's proven itself as exceedingly unreliable when
>> upgrading, and difficult to repair errors in without far more
>> expertise than most users can be troubled to maintain with an
>> increasingly obscure format.
>>     
>
> While I don't disagree with the rest of your post, the Berkeley DB
> backend is certainly not deprecated.  It may not be the recommended
> backend, but it is still supported and enhanced, along with the more
> popular FSFS backend.
>
> -Hyrum
>
>   
Surely FSFS is more robust but i would like to use the database 
repository in order to query it for retrieving log messages.
I mean that rhe source code in inside the FSFS repository and 
periodically we esport from FSFS and import in DB, so
we could use SQL to query tables containing log messages about file and 
directory versioned (instead of svn log).
But what version of Barkley DB can i use. The last version 5 is ok or i 
must use lower version? Thanks

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Re: Subversion with Berkley DB

Posted by "Hyrum K. Wright" <hy...@mail.utexas.edu>.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Daniele Zuco <zu...@istat.it> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I would like to try storing my repository using the database Oracle Berkley
>> DB.
>
> Why? Berkeley DB is deprecated for many reasons, and has been since at
> least Subversion 1.3. It does not operate well on network filesystems,
> for example. It's proven itself as exceedingly unreliable when
> upgrading, and difficult to repair errors in without far more
> expertise than most users can be troubled to maintain with an
> increasingly obscure format.

While I don't disagree with the rest of your post, the Berkeley DB
backend is certainly not deprecated.  It may not be the recommended
backend, but it is still supported and enhanced, along with the more
popular FSFS backend.

-Hyrum

Re: Subversion with Berkley DB

Posted by Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com>.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Daniele Zuco <zu...@istat.it> wrote:
> Hi
> I would like to try storing my repository using the database Oracle Berkley
> DB.

Why? Berkeley DB is deprecated for many reasons, and has been since at
least Subversion 1.3. It does not operate well on network filesystems,
for example. It's proven itself as exceedingly unreliable when
upgrading, and difficult to repair errors in without far more
expertise than most users can be troubled to maintain with an
increasingly obscure format.

Subversion with Berkley DB

Posted by Daniele Zuco <zu...@istat.it>.