[Python-Dev] Subversion (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Sep 7 23:30:00 CEST 2004

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:59, Jp Calderone wrote:

Files are, by and large, big blobs of opaque bytes. They don't = belong in a database. The subversion developers made a mistake by = putting everything into bdbs. They should have put metadata into the = database and files into the filesystem.

Right, and Berkeley splits big blobs up into overflow pages, which aren't as efficient as if all the data for a key fits in on one page.

-Barry

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