// +build mdbx /* Package lmdb provides bindings to the lmdb C API. The package bindings are fairly low level and are designed to provide a minimal interface that prevents misuse to a reasonable extent. When in doubt refer to the C documentation as a reference. http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/ http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/starting.html http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/modules.html Environment An LMDB environment holds named databases (key-value stores). An environment is represented as one file on the filesystem (though often a corresponding lock file exists). LMDB recommends setting an environment's size as large as possible at the time of creation. On filesystems that support sparse files this should not adversely affect disk usage. Resizing an environment is possible but must be handled with care when concurrent access is involved. Note that the package lmdb forces all Env objects to be opened with the NoTLS (MDB_NOTLS) flag. Without this flag LMDB would not be practically usable in Go (in the author's opinion). However, even for environments opened with this flag there are caveats regarding how transactions are used (see Caveats below). Databases A database in an LMDB environment is an ordered key-value store that holds arbitrary binary data. Typically the keys are unique but duplicate keys may be allowed (DupSort), in which case the values for each duplicate key are ordered. A single LMDB environment can have multiple named databases. But there is also a 'root' (unnamed) database that can be used to store data. Use caution storing data in the root database when named databases are in use. The root database serves as an index for named databases. A database is referenced by an opaque handle known as its DBI which must be opened inside a transaction with the OpenDBI or OpenRoot methods. DBIs may be closed but it is not required. Typically, applications acquire handles for all their databases immediately after opening an environment and retain them for the lifetime of the process. Transactions View (readonly) transactions in LMDB operate on a snapshot of the database at the time the transaction began. The number of simultaneously active view transactions is bounded and configured when the environment is initialized. Update (read-write) transactions are serialized in LMDB. Attempts to create update transactions block until a lock may be obtained. Update transactions can create subtransactions which may be rolled back independently from their parent. The lmdb package supplies managed and unmanaged transactions. Managed transactions do not require explicit calling of Abort/Commit and are provided through the Env methods Update, View, and RunTxn. The BeginTxn method on Env creates an unmanaged transaction but its use is not advised in most applications. To provide ACID guarantees, a readonly transaction must acquire a "lock" in the LMDB environment to ensure that data it reads is consistent over the course of the transaction's lifetime, and that updates happening concurrently will not be seen. If a reader does not release its lock then stale data, which has been overwritten by later transactions, cannot be reclaimed by LMDB -- resulting in a rapid increase in file size. Long-running read transactions may cause increase an applications storage requirements, depending on the application write workload. But, typically the complete failure of an application to terminate a read transactions will result in continual increase file size to the point where the storage volume becomes full or a quota has been reached. There are steps an application may take to greatly reduce the possibility of unterminated read transactions. The first safety measure is to avoid the use of Env.BeginTxn, which creates unmanaged transactions, and always use Env.View or Env.Update to create managed transactions that are (mostly) guaranteed to terminate. If Env.BeginTxn must be used try to defer a call to the Txn's Abort method (this is useful even for update transactions). txn, err := env.BeginTxn(nil, 0) if err != nil { // ... } defer txn.Abort() // Safe even if txn.Commit() is called later. Because application crashes and signals from the operation system may cause unexpected termination of a readonly transaction before Txn.Abort may be called it is also important that applications clear any readers held for dead OS processes when they start. numStale, err := env.ReaderCheck() if err != nil { // ... } if numStale > 0 { log.Printf("Released locks for %d dead readers", numStale) } If an application gets accessed by multiple programs concurrently it is also a good idea to periodically call Env.ReaderCheck during application execution. However, note that Env.ReaderCheck cannot find readers opened by the application itself which have since leaked. Because of this, the lmdb package uses a finalizer to abort unreachable Txn objects. But of course, applications must still be careful not to leak unterminated Txn objects in a way such that they fail get garbage collected. Caveats Write transactions (those created without the Readonly flag) must be created in a goroutine that has been locked to its thread by calling the function runtime.LockOSThread. Futhermore, all methods on such transactions must be called from the goroutine which created them. This is a fundamental limitation of LMDB even when using the NoTLS flag (which the package always uses). The Env.Update method assists the programmer by calling runtime.LockOSThread automatically but it cannot sufficiently abstract write transactions to make them completely safe in Go. A goroutine must never create a write transaction if the application programmer cannot determine whether the goroutine is locked to an OS thread. This is a consequence of goroutine restrictions on write transactions and limitations in the runtime's thread locking implementation. In such situations updates desired by the goroutine in question must be proxied by a goroutine with a known state (i.e. "locked" or "unlocked"). See the included examples for more details about dealing with such situations. */ package mdbx /* #cgo CFLAGS: -Wno-deprecated-declarations -pthread -W -Wall -Werror -Wextra -Wpedantic -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -std=gnu11 -pthread -Wno-error=attributes -Wno-implicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-format-extra-args -Wbad-function-cast -Wno-missing-field-initializers -O2 -g #cgo LDFLAGS: ${SRCDIR}/dist/mdbx-static.o */ import "C" /* Expiremental try to compile mdbx by cgo #define MDBX_CONFIG_H "config.h" #cgo CFLAGS: -DNDEBUG=1 -ULIBMDBX_EXPORTS -std=gnu11 -W -Wall -Werror -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wno-deprecated-declarations -pthread -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -std=gnu11 -pthread -Wno-error=attributes -Wno-implicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-format-extra-args -Wbad-function-cast -Wno-missing-field-initializers -O2 -g //cc -ffunction-sections */ // Version return the major, minor, and patch version numbers of the LMDB C // library and a string representation of the version. // // See mdb_version. //func Version() (major, minor, patch int, s string) { // var maj, min, pat C.int // verstr := C.mdbx_version(&maj, &min, &pat) // return int(maj), int(min), int(pat), C.GoString(verstr) //} // VersionString returns a string representation of the LMDB C library version. // // See mdb_version. //func VersionString() string { // var maj, min, pat C.int // verstr := C.mdbx_version(&maj, &min, &pat) // return C.GoString(verstr) //}