Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn: error: sqlite error: database is locked

[Alvaro Herrera]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Dec 25, 2007 6:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Why would the database care?  If the appropriate constraints are in
> > place, the database itself would alert Monotone when an operation it is
> > attempting would conflict with another ongoing operation.
> 
> In the present state of the code, Monotone wraps every access to the
> database in an EXCLUSIVE transaction.  The work you are dismissing as
> unnecessary-if-only-we-used-a-different-backend is the work needed to
> make it not do that.

Oh, I see.  To be honest this is the first time I hear about "exclusive
transactions".  The concept does not really make much sense to me.
Perhaps in the SQLite view of the world it does.

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