Bearing in mind that these indexes are really uniqueness constraints
that just happen to also make sqlite generate indexes.
In Database.ContentIndentifier, the ContentIndentifiersKeyRemoteCidIndex
is fine as a uniqueness constraint because it contains all rows from the
table. The ContentIndentifiersCidRemoteIndex is also ok because there
can only be one key for a given (cid, uuid) combination.
In Database.Export, the new ExportTreeFileKeyIndex is the same pair as
the old ExportTreeKeyFileIndex (previously ExportTreeIndex). And
in Database.Keys.SQL, the new InodeCacheKeyIndex is the same pair as the
old KeyInodeCacheIndex.
This is a non-backwards compatable change, so not suitable for merging
w/o a annex.version bump and transition code. Not yet tested.
This improves performance of git-annex benchmark --databases
across the board by 10-25%, since eg Key roundtrips as a ByteString.
(serializeKey' produces a lazy ByteString, so there is still a
copy involved in converting it to a strict ByteString. It may be faster
to switch to using bytestring-strict-builder.)
FilePath and Key are both stored as blobs. This avoids mojibake in some
situations. It would be possible to use varchar instead, if persistent
could avoid converting that to Text, but it seems there is no good
way to do so. See doc/todo/sqlite_database_improvements.mdwn
Eliminated some ugly artifacts of using Read/Show serialization;
constructors and quoted strings are no longer stored in sqlite.
Renamed SRef to SSha to reflect that it is only ever a git sha,
not a ref name. Since it is limited to the characters in a sha,
it is not affected by mojibake, so still uses String.
The only good thing about it is it does not require a major version bump
to improve the database. That will need to happen at some point though.
Potentially very very slow in a large repository.
Ugly use of raw sql.
fsck --incremental/--more: Fix bug that prevented the incremental fsck
information from being updated every 5 minutes as it was supposed to be; it
was only updated after 1000 files were checked, which may be more files
that are possible to fsck in a given fsck time window.
Thanks to Peter Simons for help with analysis of this bug.
Auditing for other cases of the same mistake, the keys db also had it
backwards. This seems unlikely to really have been a problem;
it would need associated files updates etc to be coming in slowly for some
reason and then be interrupted to cause any problem.
IIRC the design of the keys db assumes that any interruped
operation will be restarted, and so it can lose any buffered database
updates safely.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
This is a mostly backwards compatable change. I broke backwards
compatability in the case where a filename starts with double-quote.
That seems likely to be very rare, and v6 unlocked files are a new feature
anyway, and fsck needs to fix missing associated file mappings anyway. So,
I decided that is good enough.
The encoding used is to just show the String when it contains a problem
character. While that adds some overhead to addAssociatedFile and
removeAssociatedFile, those are not called very often. This approach has
minimal decode overhead, because most filenames won't be encoded that way,
and it only has to look for the leading double-quote to skip the expensive
read. So, getAssociatedFiles remains fast.
I did consider using ByteString instead, but getting a FilePath converted
with all chars intact, even surrigates, is difficult, and it looks like
instance PersistField ByteString uses Text, which I don't trust for problem
encoded data. It would probably be slower too, and it would make the
database less easy to inspect manually.
The benchmark shows that the database access is quite fast indeed!
And, it scales linearly to the number of keys, with one exception,
getAssociatedKey.
Based on this benchmark, I don't think I need worry about optimising
for cases where all files are locked and the database is mostly empty.
In those cases, database access will be misses, and according to this
benchmark, should add only 50 milliseconds to runtime.
(NB: There may be some overhead to getting the database opened and locking
the handle that this benchmark doesn't see.)
joey@darkstar:~/src/git-annex>./git-annex benchmark
setting up database with 1000
setting up database with 10000
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedFiles from 1000 (hit)
time 62.77 μs (62.70 μs .. 62.85 μs)
1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 62.81 μs (62.76 μs .. 62.88 μs)
std dev 201.6 ns (157.5 ns .. 259.5 ns)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedFiles from 1000 (miss)
time 50.02 μs (49.97 μs .. 50.07 μs)
1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 50.09 μs (50.04 μs .. 50.17 μs)
std dev 206.7 ns (133.8 ns .. 295.3 ns)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedKey from 1000 (hit)
time 211.2 μs (210.5 μs .. 212.3 μs)
1.000 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 211.0 μs (210.7 μs .. 212.0 μs)
std dev 1.685 μs (334.4 ns .. 3.517 μs)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedKey from 1000 (miss)
time 173.5 μs (172.7 μs .. 174.2 μs)
1.000 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 173.7 μs (173.0 μs .. 175.5 μs)
std dev 3.833 μs (1.858 μs .. 6.617 μs)
variance introduced by outliers: 16% (moderately inflated)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedFiles from 10000 (hit)
time 64.01 μs (63.84 μs .. 64.18 μs)
1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 64.85 μs (64.34 μs .. 66.02 μs)
std dev 2.433 μs (547.6 ns .. 4.652 μs)
variance introduced by outliers: 40% (moderately inflated)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedFiles from 10000 (miss)
time 50.33 μs (50.28 μs .. 50.39 μs)
1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 50.32 μs (50.26 μs .. 50.38 μs)
std dev 202.7 ns (167.6 ns .. 252.0 ns)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedKey from 10000 (hit)
time 1.142 ms (1.139 ms .. 1.146 ms)
1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 1.142 ms (1.140 ms .. 1.144 ms)
std dev 7.142 μs (4.994 μs .. 10.98 μs)
benchmarking keys database/getAssociatedKey from 10000 (miss)
time 1.094 ms (1.092 ms .. 1.096 ms)
1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 1.095 ms (1.095 ms .. 1.097 ms)
std dev 4.277 μs (2.591 μs .. 7.228 μs)