Re: mdb_cursor_del

David Barbour wrote:

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com mailto:hyc@symas.com> wrote:

The behavior wasn't settled, in the beginning. But you can read the
mtest source code to see what the expected behavior is.

In an open source project, you are expected to read source code to
understand what's going on.

I have been.

Though, in this particular case, I needed to dig all the way down to LMDB page layout to grok key indexes, compare to mdb_cursor_next, search for instances of C_DEL, etc. to understand what was happening.

You just needed to read mtest.c to understand the intended behavior.

Things have settled down enough now to formally document it though.

Then make it so. It will save a lot of people a lot of time. :)

Suggest the language for such a change. Patch welcome.