Re: iprop: Problem forcing complete database sync

Nico Williams <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:47:29 +0000

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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:40 PM Nico Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:19 AM Harald Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>
>> Have I got this right?
>>
>> 1. Does write_dump(context, s, database, current_version) always write
>> a comptele dump no matter the value of current_version?
>
>
> Yes.  BTW, there's a bug here in that we don't remove the dump on failure
> or rename it into place on success.  This means that a failure in the
> middle of dumping may leave a valid-looking but incomplete dump that may
> then be sent to slaves.
>

Actually, i tell a lie.  This is only a problem on version zero.

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