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

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