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[Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 March 2010 16:32, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On March 9, 2010, Gavin Panella wrote:
>>  * Commit only at the end.
>>
>>    With this we can do dry runs, and not have to faff with cache
>>    files.
>
> We don't want long running transaction. Especially if they load a bulk of
> data. So I think this won't work.

Generally bug imports run quite quickly, on the order of a few minutes
for several hundred bugs. Is that too long? The bug importer also
creates almost all new data, rather than updates, so won't be holding
locks that are going to affect other people, I assume.