Summary:
flush_on_destroy has a default value of false and the memtable is flushed
in the dbimpl-destructor only when that is set to true. Because we want the memtable to be flushed everytime that
the destructor is called(db is closed) and the cases where we work with the memtable only are very less
it is a good idea to give this a default value of true. Thus the put from ldb
wil have its data flushed to disk in the destructor and the next Get will be able to
read it when opened with OpenForReadOnly. The reason that ldb could read the latest value when
the db was opened in the normal Open mode is that the Get from normal Open first reads
the memtable and directly finds the latest value written there and the Get from OpenForReadOnly
doesn't have access to the memtable (which is correct because all its Put/Modify) are disabled
Test Plan: make all; ldb put and get and scans
Reviewers: dhruba, heyongqiang, sheki
Reviewed By: heyongqiang
CC: kosievdmerwe, zshao, dilipj, kailiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D8631
Summary:
Leveldb has an api OpenForReadOnly() that opens the database
in readonly mode. This call had an option to not process the
transaction log. This patch removes this option and always
processes all transactions that had been committed. It has
been done in such a way that it does not create/write to
any new files in the process. The invariant of "no-writes"
to the leveldb data directory is still true.
This enhancement allows multiple threads to open the same database
in readonly mode and access all trancations that were committed right
upto the OpenForReadOnly call.
I changed the public API to match the new semantics because
there are no users who are currently using this api.
Test Plan: make clean check
Reviewers: sheki
Reviewed By: sheki
CC: leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D7479
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