On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:09:32PM -0700, Christopher Lee wrote:
-> 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?

Absolutely.

-> >> 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.

Yep -- let's put it on the list for 0.8.1.

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C. Titus Brown, [email protected]

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