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authorErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2016-07-07 11:42:15 +0100
committerErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2016-07-07 11:42:15 +0100
commitb92e7955be10209fdd13cdb799b1ac55c981d086 (patch)
tree9c46c887f687a01f44ccae03be3fea75c079ea85 /synapse/storage
parentReturn 400 rather than 500 (diff)
downloadsynapse-b92e7955be10209fdd13cdb799b1ac55c981d086.tar.xz
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-rw-r--r--synapse/storage/events.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/storage/events.py b/synapse/storage/events.py
index c2136f3fd1..b582942164 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/events.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/events.py
@@ -1325,6 +1325,9 @@ class EventsStore(SQLBaseStore):
         max_depth = max(row[0] for row in rows)
 
         if max_depth <= topological_ordering:
+            # We need to ensure we don't delete all the events from the datanase
+            # otherwise we wouldn't be able to send any events (due to not
+            # having any backwards extremeties)
             raise SynapseError(
                 400, "topological_ordering is greater than forward extremeties"
             )