Re: [IndexedDB] setVersion blocked on uncollected garbage IDBDatabases from Jonas Sicking on 2011-02-08 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2011)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 02:52:42 -0800
To: João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>
Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTin=GRe5mEw=yFvPh8RbmOz3WMZgxLr9GsokQFJg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:45 AM, João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The only solution I can think of is to require (or recommend) that
>> implementations run the garbage collector in a context after firing
>> the "versionchange" event if the database still isn't closed. This
>> should be a rare occurrence simply because setVersion should be rare.
>
> That would be a hack in the implementation and a hack in the spec.

Why? And what are you suggesting instead? The above email is very hard
to act on.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 8 February 2011 10:53:36 UTC