Storing/extracting embedded db within .odb
Lionel Elie Mamane
lionel at mamane.lu
Tue Jul 9 06:59:24 PDT 2013
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 03:19:49PM +0100, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote:
> W.r.t. to the location of the extracted firebird db: would an appropriate naming scheme be to have
> e.g. ~foo.odb.fdb# for a foo.odb (in the same directory) similarly to the lock files that are
> created? (This could also allow for better recovery should we end up with similar corruption
> as is apparently happening with HSQLDB if there is a complete
> separate db.)
It is a temporary file. I'd stick it in $TMPDIR (or the platform
equivalent). Surely LibreOffice already has a platform abstraction
utility function to find where to put temporary files.
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Lionel
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