On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 08:42:47PM -0400, num...@ovn.org wrote: > From: Numan Siddique <nusid...@redhat.com> > > This patch adds 2 new APIs in the ovsdb-idl client library > - ovsdb_idl_has_table() and ovsdb_idl_has_column_in_table() to > query if a table and a column is present in the IDL or not. This > is required for scenarios where the server schema is old and > missing a table or column and the client (built with a new schema > version) does a transaction with the missing table or column. This > results in a continuous loop of transaction failures. > > OVN would require the API - ovsdb_idl_has_table() to address this issue > when an old ovsdb-server is used (OVS 2.11) which has the 'datapath' > table missing. A recent commit in OVN creates a 'datapath' row > in the local ovsdb-server. ovsdb_idl_has_column_in_table() would be > useful to have. > > Related issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1992705 > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusid...@redhat.com>
In the OVN meeting, I suggested that this is a bug in the ovsdb_idl code for transactions: it shouldn't try to transact on a column that it knows doesn't exist. It might still make sense to add this API, though. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
