From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLS8E-0003C7-9e for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:36:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLS8A-0000do-Ei for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:36:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:45904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLS8A-0000di-B4 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:36:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLS8A-0006VM-5L for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:36:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#27374] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: lmdb: Expand description. References: In-Reply-To: Resent-Message-ID: From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:36:23 +0200 Message-Id: <20170615103625.8225-1-me@tobias.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: 27374@debbugs.gnu.org * gnu/packages/databases.scm (lmdb)[synopsis]: Capitalise. [description]: Elaborate. --- gnu/packages/databases.scm | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/databases.scm b/gnu/packages/databases.scm index 2197814ad..3c9c29b4c 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/databases.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/databases.scm @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke ;;; Copyright © 2017 Thomas Danckaert ;;; Copyright © 2017 Arun Isaac +;;; Copyright © 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -1355,8 +1356,17 @@ trees (LSM), for sustained throughput under random insert workloads.") (("/usr/local") (assoc-ref outputs "out"))) #t))))) (home-page "https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database") - (synopsis "Lightning memory-mapped database library") - (description "Lightning memory-mapped database library.") + (synopsis "Lightning Memory-Mapped Database library") + (description + "The @dfn{Lightning Memory-Mapped Database} (LMDB) is a high-performance +transactional database. Unlike more complex relational databases, LMDB handles +only key-value pairs (stored as arbitrary byte arrays) and relies on the +underlying operating system for caching and locking, keeping the code small and +simple. +The use of ‘zero-copy’ memory-mapped files combines the persistence of classic +disk-based databases with high read performance that scales linearly over +multiple cores. The size of each database is limited only by the size of the +virtual address space — not physical RAM.") (license license:openldap2.8))) (define-public libpqxx -- 2.12.2