On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Gavin Panella <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 March 2010 16:32, Francis J. Lacoste <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On March 9, 2010, Gavin Panella wrote: >>> * Commit only at the end. >>> >>> With this we can do dry runs, and not have to faff with cache >>> files. >> >> We don't want long running transaction. Especially if they load a bulk of >> data. So I think this won't work. > > Generally bug imports run quite quickly, on the order of a few minutes > for several hundred bugs. Is that too long? The bug importer also > creates almost all new data, rather than updates, so won't be holding > locks that are going to affect other people, I assume.
You say "generally". How would this work in the exceptional cases where it takes much more than a few minutes? jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
