On Aug 7, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Istvan Albert wrote:
> I think it may better if the operations did not silently fall back to > some other backend - and then perform in an atrociously slowly.That > could just cause even more problems. The error message should be more > informative, and explicitly require bsddb. I think your proposal is much more sensible than what I was suggesting. In the first 0.8 release, let's just raise a very clear error message if neither bsddb or gdbm (which we handle well) are available. Titus, what do you think? > >> backends seem like throwbacks to the past. I believe Istvan looked at >> sqlite performance some time ago; I think it was pretty good. > > Yes, I did, performance looked pretty good. And I think we could use > the code from > > http://bugs.python.org/issue3783 > > right away, and update as necessary. Maybe this could be a independent > microrelease release after 0.8. that does not add any new > functionality but swaps out one backend for another. I can take a > second look in a few weeks (need to finish something else first, but > that will happen soon) Yes, I think this is a great solution -- it genuinely solves the problem by providing a reliable backend. -- Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
