On Thursday, October 29, 2015 6:57:39 AM telemaco via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Why not allow two options: > > 1/ a default RocksDB/SQLite/LevelDB (whatever is decided) > 2/ alternative provide instructions for connection to any other rdbms > using odbc or jdbc.
I predict this would be a disaster. UTXO storage is CONSENSUS-CRITICAL code. Any divergence in implementation behaviour, including bugs AND bugfixes, may cause consensus failure. For this to have a reasonable *hope* of working, we need to choose one storage engine, and *will* need to maintain consensus- compatibility of it ourselves (since nobody else cares). Fixing LevelDB frankly seems like an easier task than switching to anything SQL-based, which would require a *lot* more *difficult-to-get-consensus- compatible* code that we are all (or at least mostly) very unfamiliar with. Research is fine, but let's be realistic about deployment. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
