Introduce the Env::nested_read_txn
from an RwTxn
#307
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This PR is a first attempt at patching LMDB to generate multiple
RoTxn
from anRwTxn
and therefore be able to read, in parallel, the content of an uncommittedRwTxn
. We can run many algorithms in Meilisearch to process the written content and generate new data structures before committing the transaction.This first attempt uses a broken fork of LMDB that ignores the number of nested write transactions associated with the parent one. Therefore, it lets heed create multiple nested write transactions from the parent one (dangerous). We store those write transactions in
RoTxn
s shells to disallow, at the compilation level, writing anything with them.Note the CI is broken but it works locally so it's maybe a submodule issue (always a submodule issue) 🤔It was...