From ed5640d8b587fbcfed7dd7967f3de04b37a76f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 11:06:44 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 4:7.4.7. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- registry/README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 registry/README.md (limited to 'registry/README.md') diff --git a/registry/README.md b/registry/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..617ef4a73 --- /dev/null +++ b/registry/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Registry Reading, etc + +This provides tools for dealing with the legacy binary types database +format, still in use by extensions and the core code. While the actual +binary file format is implemented by the `store` code, the wrapper +that turns this into a type registry is implemented here. + +While this code is primarily used in only two modes: + +* linear write / concatenate +* random access read + +The API unfortunately exposes a random-access write approach, which - +while ~unused needs before we can re-write this away from the store +backend. -- cgit v1.2.3