Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can inspect s sqlite database with the provided utility. Unless the > > > database gets corrupted (which it tries to avoid by respecting ACID), > > ACID is not something a database "respects", it is a set of guarantees > > that it provides to the application. Avoiding database corruption is > > a necessary requirement for, rather than a consequence of, ACID. > I'm thinking of ACID as a set of ideas / procedures, the consequence > of which is avoiding corruption. Of course, there's a "hierarchy of > reliability" - the db relies on the file system to meet the > requirements, the file system relies on the hardware, etc. but if the > db doesn't make use of those, it's all for nothing.
The world would be a much nicer place if people would stop redefining technical terms to mean whatever suits them. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
