On 03/26/2017 04:42 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> The transaction struct now takes a ref store at creation and will
> operate on that ref store alone.

Having worked downstream of this patch series for a while, I started to
wonder why a `ref_store` has to be baked into a `ref_transaction` at
creation. I haven't noticed any technical reason why it must be so.

If we expected to need to virtualize `ref_transaction_begin()` sometime,
then of course your design would be preferable.

It surprised be, because until now `ref_transaction` has been a plain
old data structure unconnected with a particular `ref_store`. I would
have expected `ref_transaction_commit()` to gain a more general sibling,
`refs_ref_transaction_commit()` [*], that takes an additional `ref_store
*` object argument, and for `ref_transaction_commit()` to call that
function. It would feel slightly more natural to me, given that
`transaction_commit` is a virtual method of the `ref_store` class, for
`refs_ref_transaction_commit()` to take an explicit `refs` pointer
rather than having that pointer buried in the `ref_transaction`.

I think this is mostly an aesthetic issue (about which opinions can
legitimately differ) rather than a concrete problem. I haven't yet had
any difficulties working with your interface. But I wanted to mention my
observation anyway. As far as I'm concerned, you don't need to change it.

> [...]

Michael

[*] The name could obviously be improved, but you get the idea.

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