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Gospel of Consistency

http://blog.woobling.org/2009/08/gospel-of-consistency.html

by nothingmuch • 17 years ago

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jrockway• 17 years ago

Good article. Most people don't realize how much data they are silently corrupting.

I did not realize how bad of an idea HTTP sessions were until I started using BDB and a transaction around the whole request. Lots of conflicts that MySQL (and Postgres, out of the box) just silently ignored. BDB showed me my flawed logic, and I changed how I stored sessions. (Only storing the whole object when some field actually changed, rather than always writing what I read at the beginning. Even this is sub-optimal.)

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