Hi,
I have a question regarding growing an LMDB database when a write transaction hits MDB_MAP_FULL. I would like to avoid defining a high mapsize value because my application will contain many MDB_envs, and because I have Windows users (Windows allocates the whole file on the disk).
Based on the intuition that MDB_MAP_FULL should not leave the database in a weird state, I have made the following little experiment. When MDB_MAP_FULL is encountered I tried to:
* copy the current env (mdb_env_copy) into another directory (fine: it does not seem to contain uncommited data)
* reset the transaction < error bit > (modified LMDB code to introduce a < txn->mt_flags &= ~MDB_TXN_ERROR > somewhere)
* commit the transaction
* close the database
* close the env
* reopen it with a higher mapsize value
* reopen the database
* create another transaction
* continue writing ... and it seems to be working pretty well.
Assuming I am ready to < relax > some of the ACID requirements, does it sound reasonable to think that MDB_MAP_FULL does not leave LMDB is a weird state? And that the < trick > described above should always be working? By < working > I mean: the copied environment will never contain uncommitted data (so I can rely on it to implement a kind of rollback), the reopened environment will always be valid and contain the expected data (data written before hitting MDB_MAP_FULL)?
Thanks in advance for any insight, Best regards,
Bruno.