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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
	telemaco <telemaco@neomailbox•net>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [patch] Switching Bitcoin Core to sqlite db
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:35:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTga_vTfOKrFu_hEzXSfTfg9FRfJ6aL6ginuGFqnbm7=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5632DE33.7030600@bitcartel.com>

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Simon Liu via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Given that UTXO storage is considered critical, it seems reasonable to

This sounds like a misunderstanding of what consensus criticial means.
It does not mean that it must be right (though obviously that is
preferable) but that it must be _consistent_, between all nodes.

> full node and keep up with the network, why not let those users with the
> resources to operate big iron databases do so?  It would be a good
> feature to have.

Because it provides no value, the data is opaque and propritarily
encoded with a compression function which we may change from version
to version, and because many of these alternatives are enormously
slow; enough that they present problems with falling behind the
network even on high performance hardware.

Moreover, additional functional which will not be sufficiently used
will not adequately maintained and result in increased maintains costs
and more bugs.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-30  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-29  6:57 telemaco
2015-10-29  8:03 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-30  3:04   ` Simon Liu
2015-10-30  3:35     ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2015-10-30  4:04       ` Peter R
2015-10-30  4:28         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-11-15  1:02           ` Peter R
2015-11-15  1:08             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-11-15  1:45               ` Peter R
2015-11-15  2:10                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-11-15  2:58                   ` Peter R
2015-11-15  3:30                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-11-15  4:10                       ` Peter R
2015-11-15 10:12                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-15 11:28                           ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-15 15:48                             ` Peter R
2015-11-15 17:06                           ` Peter R
2015-11-17 13:54                             ` Tamas Blummer
2015-11-17 15:24                               ` Tom Harding
2015-11-17 22:17                                 ` telemaco
2015-11-20 14:15                                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16  1:52                     ` Rusty Russell
2015-11-15  3:04             ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-15  3:17               ` Peter R
2015-10-29  8:17 ` Gregory Maxwell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-22 21:26 Jeff Garzik
2015-10-22 21:54 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-10-22 21:56 ` Joseph Gleason ⑈
2015-10-23  6:53 ` Jonas Schnelli
2015-10-23  7:45 ` Lucas Betschart
2015-10-28 20:28   ` Sean Lynch
2015-10-28 21:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-23 10:30 ` Tom Zander
2015-10-26 18:06   ` Douglas Roark
2015-10-28 15:52     ` Tom Zander
2015-11-18  0:06     ` Jonathan Wilkins

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