Hi Ben,

I have tested the patch , it works , now I don't see an update with just
the _version change.

Thanks for the quick response .

Best Regards,
Rishi Raj

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 09:10:19AM +0530, RishiRaj Maulick wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I have been very recently using the OVSDB for one of our projects . I am
> > able to create my own schema and operate on it . However to better
> > understand things , I was also looking at the behavior of vswitchd on the
> > default schema.
> >
> > I am confused with the events of things that happened -
> >
> > 1) I am monitoring the "Bridge" table through ovsdb-client
> > 2) Using ovs-vsctl , whenever I add a bridge ( say br0 ) , on the monitor
> > console I see that there are 2 activities - one of which is the initial
> > "insert" and the next is an update for the "datapath id " that gets
> > allocated by the vswitchd.
> > This is understandable. In the update the _version field and the datapath
> > id field gets mutated to new values.
> > 3) However, if I add a second bridge ( say br1 ) , in the monitor
> console ,
> > apart from the above operations pertaining to the new bridge being added
> (
> > br1 ) , I am also seeing that the entry for the previously added bridge
> br0
> > also gets mutated and the only change is the _version field.
> >
> > My understanding of the  _uuid and _version fields is that these are
> > maintained by the DB for internal purposes and the ovsdb-client cannot
> > mutate these.
> >
> > So I wanted to understand , why ( or what is the need ) the change of
> > *_version* for all of the existing bridges are required , whenever we are
> > adding a new bridge.
>
> It's just a bug.  I sent out a fix.  Will you test it?
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-August/059445.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>
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