[Xorp-hackers] order of create/delete operations

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin at icir.org
Tue May 9 16:02:47 PDT 2006


> quick question/random thought...
> 
> During a commit wouldn't it make sense to apply all the delete
> xrls prior to the create/sets?
> 
> I can appreciate that this is not globally possible (across all
> nodes within a commit) due to transactions--but shouldn't this be
> true within the scope of a transaction?

I believe it was a semantic decision to have the create/sets before
the deletes.
Can you give an example that demonstrates it is better to have the
deletes before the create/sets.

Pavlin



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