Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] WAL and JOURNAL
Author Arno Brinkman
Hi,

> People, I think that wiping out a subsystem can be considered a high level
> decision, hence I'm using this list instead of fb-devel.
>
> Does the WAL (Write Ahead Log) facility have any future? After spending
some
> weeks reading here and there, it seems to me almost impossible that it can
> work. Maybe I'm exaggerate, but I smell screwed logic here and there.
Also,
> some of the utilities seem unusable or outdated.
>
> Therefore, I want to ask the "big powers": can/should WAL be yanked from
FB
> v2? Being the code reviewer, it would be silly to take such a decision for
> myself and give very bad example to other committers. Furthermore, I
> recently reached 33 y.o. and don't want to be crucified by the rest of the
> devs due to a "political" mistake.
> :-)
>
> Would it be too much if I ask in the same email for the future of
> jrd/jrn.cpp and its relatives in the "journal" directory?
>
> Maybe we need to start a clean new year.

My personal opinion :

Please please remove them. I already spend some unnecessary time on looking
to a part from that code.

Regards,
Arno Brinkman
ABVisie

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