Incrememental item creation

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Incrememental item creation #22

Open pdl opened 9 years ago

pdl commented 9 years ago

There should be a way of creating an item in which the creator does not wish to deal with conflicts - i.e. Storage will always create the item and will potentially return an item with a different location.

Challenges:

vulnerability to race conditions
slow
how do you deal with items missing in series - given item-1, item-3, do you create item-2 or item-4.

pdl commented 9 years ago

The more I think about this, the more I wonder if allowing this will conflict with other things like having sharded databases. I'm not sure that it needs to be a core assumption that this is possible.