[elephant-devel] Next issue, this time with Postmodern backend

[Robert L. Read]

Dear Leslie,
	Thank you for this patch.  I will try to test it by this weekend,
unless Ian wants to.

	However, if you will forgive me being dogmatic, it would be even better
if this had a test case with it.  For example, I don't think we have any
good examples of producing lots of threads and whacking Elephant with
them simultaneously.  Such a test would both inspire confidence, and
show people how Elephant can be used.

	I'm imagining something that spins up 100 simultaneous threads and does
something to elephant from within each thread.  Following the mantra
"red, green, refactor", it would be lovely to see things seize up and
then see that your patch fixes it.  It would also be a starting point
for other concurrency related tests in the future. (It might be useful
for the CL-SQL guys, as well.)  


	Would it take you a long time to produce a test that demonstrated the
failure?  I don't want to abuse your excellent work by asking more of
you, but every bug is an opportunity for a new and deeper test.
	

	

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 16:07 +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
> > Elephant-utils has some of the basic thread stuff we need - only need
> > to import one or two operators.  If we add much more we'll add
> > bordeaux as a dependency.  Do you want to wrap this up in a bow so we
> > can commit it?  (Did you test by adding this to the connection
> > creation routine in pm-controller?)
> 
> Here's the patch. For SBCL it does the intended thing, others will
> have to fill in their stuff.
> 
> It's straightforward and works for me. Later it would probably be
> nice to actually re-use existing connections.
> 
>   Leslie
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