Comment 8 for bug 531834

The following is the end of a mail thread. Last response is Salgado's.

> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 16:49 -0400, Gary Poster wrote:
> > On May 8, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Guilherme Salgado <email address hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > The latter should work as long as the ROMDP returns the romode store
> > > (pointing to the standalone DB) rather than the regular slave one as it
> > > currently does. The ROMDP is already installed by beforeTraversal() (so
> > > we'll still be able to switch the web app to read-only without
> > > restarting) but as you said we'll need to install that policy on
> > > startup, for things like the librarian.
> > >
> > > We also need to make sure that all DatabasePolicies can detect a mode
> > > change and close the stores used by the previous mode, so that we don't
> > > leave open connections behind.
> >
> > Hmm... yeah. All the DatabasePolicies would need to know about RO
> > mode, which sucks. Instead, we could just do this in the
> > IStoreSelector - if read-only mode is detected, ignore any installed
> > DatabasePolicy and return the read-only Stores.
>
> Salgado, the thread stopped pretty soon after this suggestion. Does this
> sound like a reasonable plan of attack to you? If so, maybe I could have
> a quick call with you next week to make sure I understand what
> Foundations needs to do.

It sounds sane, although I don't quite remember how the StoreSelector
works (and more importantly, if everything uses it). I think we just
need to make sure there's no code used by the app servers that might
bypass the StoreSelector, also teaching the store selector to detect a
mode change and close the stores used in the previous mode.