Thanks, Howard.
It would be nice if some clarification, like these, will be in the lmdb.h.
Leonid.
2015-05-01 4:42 GMT+03:00 Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com>:
Леонид Юрьев wrote:
>
> Hi, Howard.
>
> I would like to refine my question.
>
> Currently I develop a mdb_chk tool for deep check LMDB-files, like a fsck
> tool.
> It is needed for us, but let this stay aside for now.
>
> On some step I plan to check the size of each key in each DBI with
> MDB_INTEGERKEY and/or MDB_INTEGERDUP flags.
>
> Initially I assumed - if one of these flags is set, the the length of
> all keys must be sizeof(int) or sizeof(long). As will be used the
> corresponding comparison functions (mdb_cmp_int, mdb_cmp_long) , which
> can handle only keys of such sizes.
>
> But this approach has failed. A dbi-tables created for attr by
> mdb_attr_dbs_open() have MDB_DUPSORT|MDB_DUPFIXED|MDB_INTEGERDUP flags
> and may contain records with a 5-byte keys. For instance as the
> 'entryCSN'.
>
> Later you have written that MDB_INTEGERDUP is required.
>
> Now I do not understand how it all works:
> - MDB_INTEGERDUP is set for attr tables.
> - indexer could create a 5-byte keys.
> - mdb-backend set custom comparison function only for MDB_DN2ID table.
> - under debugger I see that md_dcmp is pointed to the default.
> - assert for key-size in default comparators was not failed while "make
> test".
> - all test are passed without MDB_INTEGERDUP.
> - but you told MDB_INTEGERDUP is necessary
>
> So,
> - how and when MDB_INTEGERDUP will have an impact?
> - in which cases keys in the table definitely should be sizeof(int) or
> sizeof(long)?
MDB_INTGERKEY means the *keys* must be int/long.
MDB_INTEGERDUP means the *values* must be int/long.
When either flag is set, all of the corresponding (keys|values) in the DB
must be the same size.
The indexer only uses MDB_INTEGERDUP - it doesn't care what size the keys
are, but the values must be (longs in this case).
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