[elephant-cvs] CVS elephant/doc

[ieslick]

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc
In directory clnet:/tmp/cvs-serv13013/doc

Modified Files:
	data-store-reference.texinfo 
Log Message:
Fixed circular name dependency due to new asdf load order

--- /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc/data-store-reference.texinfo	2007/03/30 14:34:34	1.2
+++ /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc/data-store-reference.texinfo	2007/03/30 17:28:50	1.3
@@ -67,11 +67,21 @@
 @include includes/fun-elephant-backend-open-controller.texinfo
 @include includes/fun-elephant-backend-close-controller.texinfo
 
-
+For upgrading and opening legacy databases it is important that a
+store be able to indicate which version of elephant was used to create
+it.  This governs the chosen serializer, mappings between elephant
+symbols used in an old vs. new version, etc.  Because this is called
+to initialize the serializer, it must directly implemented by the
+backend without using the serializer.
 
 @include includes/fun-elephant-backend-database-version.texinfo
 
-These functions are important utilities for implementing
+There are some utilities for serializing simple data without a
+serializer using the memutil package.
+
+ at include 
+
+These functions are useful utilities for implementing
 store-controllers.
 
 @include includes/fun-elephant-backend-get-con.texinfo