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Subject: [ZODB-Dev] Re: ZODB Blob implementation
From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson () devmail ! geminidataloggers ! co ! uk>
Date: 2005-06-14 9:03:31
Message-ID: 200506141003.31323.tdickenson () devmail ! geminidataloggers ! co ! uk
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On Saturday 11 June 2005 13:15, Christian Theune wrote:
> I just wanted to check if you're still interested in having a look at
> the new Blob implementation of ZODB.
>
I had a look a while ago, and sent you some comments by private email. The
machine it was sent from is currently offline, so I cant dig up that email
right now...
Following comment are from memory:
> Jim especially would appreciate it if you would look at the commit
> semantics we went for.
There are two problems with implementing your own commit logic. Firstly, the
theoretically unfixable distributed transaction problem - there will always
be a small window where a crash can leave a transaction's blobs committed but
the pickles uncommitted.
The second problem with implementing your own commit logic is that you need to
*implement* that commit logic. It is quite a few lines of code, and from
memory there were a couple of outstanding problems. (I dont remember
details :-(
I think a better solution would be to rely on the underlying pickle storage as
the authority on whether a given transaction was actually committed. That
absolves you of the responsibility of rollback, and of tracking the id of the
most recent transaction. I think I had a cunning implementation strategy too;
Ill take another look if you cant dig out that email.
--
Toby Dickenson
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