Re: [elephant-devel] deserialization error on (make-pset)

2010-09-30 Thread marc daya
On 29 September 2010 07:47, marc daya wrote: > I've run into a problem on the latest Elephant 1.0 from the darcs > repository, with SBCL 1.0.34 on FreeBSD and 1.0.39 on MacOS. > (make-pset) fails with a deserialization error (steps below).  Other > operations like creating a

[elephant-devel] deserialization error on (make-pset)

2010-09-28 Thread marc daya
work fine. Am I doing something silly? .marc --- (steps to reproduce follow) --- * (in-package :ele-user) # * (open-store '(:bdb #P"/tmp/tmpstore")) ; loading system definition from ... ... ; ; compilation unit finished ; printed 197 notes # * (make-pset) debugger i

Re: [elephant-devel] Citing Elephant

2008-10-24 Thread Marc
oining this, particularly Robert, > should let me know). > > We would of course want to have a 1.0 in place by publication time... :) > thanks! For future publications building on elephant we'll just cite the Web page. Best regards, Marc > Oct 10, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Mar

[elephant-devel] Citing Elephant

2008-10-16 Thread Marc
Hi Ian! Does the group have any preferred way for citing elephant in academic papers? Best regards, Marc ___ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel

Re: [elephant-devel] Berkeley DB error: Cannot allocate memory.

2008-09-24 Thread Marc
definitely a sweet spot for SQLite. > > We actually might be able to configure BDB to behave similarly (tune > it for single-writer, multiple-readers) as an optional setup to > Elephant; but we'd have to look into this a bit as I'm not entirely > sure BDB can meet your constra

Re: [elephant-devel] Berkeley DB error: Cannot allocate memory.

2008-09-24 Thread Marc
usual ACID properties. agreed. > In my web application (using weblocks) I wrap every ajax callback on > the server side in one big transaction since I know apriori that > operations within these callbacks aren't going to blow out 20M of > cache or 1000's of locks. Typicall

Re: [elephant-devel] Berkeley DB error: Cannot allocate memory.

2008-09-23 Thread Marc
the limits at best slightly lessens the pain, but is not really a solution. Best regards, Marc > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Red Daly wrote: > >> I have recently run into "Cannot allocate memory" problems with >> elephant on a production server. Unfortuna

Re: [elephant-devel] changing association slots

2008-08-12 Thread Marc
Hi! i forgot to attach the patch to the mail - so other users - if they have the same problem - will be able to compare the current source with our patch. here a slighly expanded version of the same patch that also allows remove-association to work for unbound slots. Best regards, Marc

[elephant-devel] Issue: Inverse association not saved

2008-07-22 Thread Marc
S X.4 The attached sample program illustrates the problem. Thanks in advance for any assistance! Best regards, Marc (elephant:open-store '(:BDB "/tmp/db")) (elephant:defpclass A () ((ic :accessor ic :initarg :ic :associate B) (id :accessor id :initarg :id :type

Re: [elephant-devel] Newbie question: Index on collections

2008-05-05 Thread Marc
works for the BDB data store now. many thanks --- and BDB is the only datastore we use and can look into in any case! Best regards, Marc Ian On May 3, 2008, at 3:56 AM, Marc wrote: Marc wrote: Ian Eslick wrote: Great! Actually in writing the following e-mail, I realized that this had fo

Re: [elephant-devel] Newbie question: Index on collections

2008-05-03 Thread Marc
Marc wrote: Ian Eslick wrote: Great! Actually in writing the following e-mail, I realized that this had forced me to think through a bunch of things and so I wrote a version of the functionality in associations.lisp and just checked it in. Start playing with, reading and commenting on

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant-unstable: missing schema-evolution

2008-03-24 Thread Marc
Ian Eslick wrote: Fixed. Thanks! Best regards, Marc On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Marc wrote: Hi! A few very initial observation: on asdf:operate against the very latest version from darcs we get the following issue: failed to find the TRUENAME of PATH/elephant-unstable/src/elephant

Re: [elephant-devel] Newbie question: Index on collections

2008-03-24 Thread Marc
l hope for some time in between sessions. Best regards Marc Download the elephant-unstable branch: darcs get http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant/darcs/elephant-unstable It's probably best to spend a little time reading and experimenting, then writ

[elephant-devel] elephant-unstable: missing schema-evolution

2008-03-24 Thread Marc
further test works Best regards, Marc ___ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel

Re: [elephant-devel] Newbie question: Index on collections

2008-03-19 Thread Marc
join in the work on the association facility. Any pointer on what would be the best entry point into that task? Best regards, Marc On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Marc wrote: Ian Eslick wrote: The pset is probably your best bet. Other collection objects have more performance impact. Wit

Re: [elephant-devel] Newbie question: Index on collections

2008-03-17 Thread Marc
think this is the idea. Many thanks for this guidance. That does, indeed, give me an idea of the best way forward in our application. Best regards, Marc On Mar 16, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Marc wrote: Hello! I fear that this may be a rather stupid newbie question, but neither from the docum

[elephant-devel] Newbie question: Index on collections

2008-03-16 Thread Marc
ntries in slots that contain collections)? What would be the best data structure for the friends slot, assuming that the collection remains fairly stable over time (psets, lists or other collections)? Thanks in advance for any hint! Best