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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/boltdb/bolt/doc.go b/vendor/github.com/boltdb/bolt/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cc937845d --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/boltdb/bolt/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +/* +Package bolt implements a low-level key/value store in pure Go. It supports +fully serializable transactions, ACID semantics, and lock-free MVCC with +multiple readers and a single writer. Bolt can be used for projects that +want a simple data store without the need to add large dependencies such as +Postgres or MySQL. + +Bolt is a single-level, zero-copy, B+tree data store. This means that Bolt is +optimized for fast read access and does not require recovery in the event of a +system crash. Transactions which have not finished committing will simply be +rolled back in the event of a crash. + +The design of Bolt is based on Howard Chu's LMDB database project. + +Bolt currently works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. + + +Basics + +There are only a few types in Bolt: DB, Bucket, Tx, and Cursor. The DB is +a collection of buckets and is represented by a single file on disk. A bucket is +a collection of unique keys that are associated with values. + +Transactions provide either read-only or read-write access to the database. +Read-only transactions can retrieve key/value pairs and can use Cursors to +iterate over the dataset sequentially. Read-write transactions can create and +delete buckets and can insert and remove keys. Only one read-write transaction +is allowed at a time. + + +Caveats + +The database uses a read-only, memory-mapped data file to ensure that +applications cannot corrupt the database, however, this means that keys and +values returned from Bolt cannot be changed. Writing to a read-only byte slice +will cause Go to panic. + +Keys and values retrieved from the database are only valid for the life of +the transaction. When used outside the transaction, these byte slices can +point to different data or can point to invalid memory which will cause a panic. + + +*/ +package bolt |