[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-vsctl: Allow modifying "immutable" columns if we just created the row.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Oct 7 20:37:46 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:01:13PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> OVSDB has the concept of "immutable" columns, which are columns whose
> values are fixed once a row is inserted.  Until now, ovs-vsctl has not
> allowed these columns to be modified at all.  However, this is a little too
> strict, because these columns can be set to any value at the time that the
> row is inserted.  This commit relaxes the ovs-vsctl requirement, then, to
> allow an immutable column's value to be modified if its row has been
> inserted within this transaction.
> 
> Requested-by: Mukesh Hira <mhira at vmware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Mukesh, does this help solve the problem that you mentioned?



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