Hello Guillaume
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:51 AM
Hi Allan, Hi Anatol,
I was looking to this new multiplexed implementation and I found some problems: 1) This implementation can lead to download databases from different servers, I think it can't be a problem if they are not synced
Database files are downloaded independently. There is no any grouping or tracking where did each file come from. It is true both for current (multiplexed) and for the previous (sequential) downloader implementation. Thus there was and is always a possibility that databases can come from different mirrors e.g. in case of a flaky server.
2) Differents download payloads are created for databases and its signature files, this can this time lead to download the database and its signature from differents server, I'm sure it's not wanted. 3) Because signature files have their own download payloads, if the signature is missing on a the first server (e.g. database signature is optional), all next servers will be tried and all will give the same error.
I really wanted to suggest a patch but I didn't find a easy way (understand a small patch) to fix it and I would like your opinion on point 1) first.
Regards, Guillaume.