[Bug 232350] periodic: pkg-checksum and pkg-backup interfere with 'overnight' port builds

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Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #28 from Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Tatsuki Makino from comment #27)

The pkg_lock table is used by pkg-lock(8), not for the database locking used as
a part of the routine operations of pkg(8) as a whole.

The sqlite3 locking used by pkg(8) is a global lock over the whole database --
sqlite3 is not a multiuser database and has essentially no support for
concurrent access or MVCC.  If one instance of pkg(8) is active it will hold
either a write lock -- giving it exclusive access -- or a read lock -- which
could be shared with other consumers, but all are blocked from writing or
obtaining a write lock themselves.  That's always going to be a potential cause
of problems whenever multiple invocations of pkg(8) are run simultaneously.

This is unfortunately intrinsic to the use of sqlite3.  Possible alternatives
might include much heavier-weight RDBMSes like mysql or postgresql, which would
solve the concurrency problem but doesn't really seem practical for general
use.

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