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Subject: RE: possible compact bug in 1.1.1
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> >  undeterministic behaviour is not something I like.

> You cannot avoid  undeterministic behavior when it comes to conflicts. =
 It is an inherent problem.

Undeterministic behavior is fine when it's caused by scheduling or =
synchronization
related to parallel operations, and I'm happy to live with it.

But not knowing whether my write operation will fail or succeed (in fact =
succeed without
changing the state of the database!) for the target with the very same =
content (*) is weird.

(*) - if we consider _compact operation as something that should not =
change the actual content

Cheers,
Viktor
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