annotations.db corruption

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:24:53PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Martin Konold wrote:
> >Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 16:35 schrieb Ken Murchison:

> >> or a process if dying in the middle of a txn.
> >
> >This is also my guess. (I am guessing that a process dies due to some 
> >memory allocation/mapping issues and I spotted some potential code 
> >candidates.)
> >
> >Can you explain how a dying process can create such a broken skiplist db?
> >
> >I was under the impression that due to the transactional nature of 
> >skiplist a dying process cannot turn the db unusable.
> 
> Like I said, I'm not real familiar with the skiplist code so I don't 
> know if my guess is reasonable or not.

Do you know whom we could ask that is familiar with the code?
We also consider switching to berkeley db for this database,
would you recommend this? It seem much better to get to the core of
the problem, but we seem to be stuck so far.
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