[elephant-devel] Accessing a DB from multiple processes

[Kevin Raison]

I am curious about this use case for Berkeley DB;  can someone confirm
that multiple Lisp images can access a single BDB store without problems?

Thanks,
Kevin


On 01/25/2008 03:14 AM, Henrik Hjelte wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 11:53 AM, Leslie P. Polzer <leslie.polzer at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> I know that Elephant is thread-safe. Am I right in that I can also
>> open a store from separate Lisp images?
> 
> The postmodern backend is almost optimized for this use case, with its
> globally synced cache.
> 
> clsql backend works as well.
> 
> bdb backend should work... I had some problems with BDB in this use
> case, but that was some time ago so I don't know the current state.
> 
> Note that multiple image access is not tested in the elephant
> testcases. There is code for testing this in the project grand-prix on
> common-lisp.net
> 
> /Henrik
> _______________________________________________
> elephant-devel site list
> elephant-devel at common-lisp.net
> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel