- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:36:55 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: > > I may be completely alone in this one, but is schema versioning as part > of the API really a necessary thing? I mean, it's convenient, but is it > necessary? Just trying to keep it simple. In particular with the offline stuff, it is highly likely that code will be running and interacting with the database in one window when a script tries to update the schema, and we don't want authors to have to implement some primitive locking facility of their own to prevent old versions corrupting the data. I think it's relatively light-weight yet provides something that could end up being really useful in certain cases. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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