Revisiting Segment Issues

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 2/25/10 7:56 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>> Some more thoughts:
>> 
>> The database is 31 GB. The user's version of Mac OS is 10.6.2. So
>> far this is the only user reporting this. After archival an
>> automatic diagnose is done with a very visible "the database has
>> problems". Currently the application is in beta and so doesn't have
>> too many users.
>> 
>> The Valentina version is currently 4.3. I will install 4.5 and ask
>> the user to archive again.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hm, I wonder if I've just found something similar. A user can
> reproducibly corrupt a small db (about 400-500K) by repeated writing
> and updating the same blob field, maybe 2000 times (don't know at
> what # this happens). But the db grows to > 1 GB. I got a copy of it
> and diagnose said it was damaged (segment errors with the blob
> field). When I cloned it, the size went back to about 400K.
> 
> Please post here again when  you've tried 4.5 (I'm still on 4.2). I'd
> like to hope it has been fixed...

As far as I remember something was fixed in BLOBs,
Yes Ivan ?


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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