[Python-Dev] Subversion

[Barry Warsaw]

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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