[Prophet] A few random questions on the source

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Tue Aug 19 17:13:24 EDT 2008


On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:

>>
>> Changesets are not directly cumulative, only indirectly. Changesets
>> are _ordered_ so that if you're about to apply changeset 5, you will
>> have already applied changeset 4.
>
> Uhm. What happens if we get cs 5 before getting cs 4? Or, where is the
> check to make sure this does not happen? (I am a bit lost in the
> changeset handling logic)

The design of Prophet is such that when you're replaying changesets  
from a foreign replica, you replay them in order.

-j


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