Re: [ZODB-Dev] Generational Caching

2005-06-07 Thread Chris McDonough
One way to potentially soften the impact of cache busting by spiders might be to allow Zope to choose a particular ZODB connection based on request parameters (like sessionid or requesting ip address, or most likely user agent in the case of legitimate spiders). This is a modification to Zope

Re: Re: [ZODB-Dev] Handling more databases with zeo

2005-06-29 Thread Chris McDonough
I also use this feature but I would be happy to stop using it if it made the code materially simpler to maintain. - C On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:31 -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote: On 6/29/05, Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Tim Peters] As before, I'd run a different ZEO server for

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Reloading product in 2.8

2005-07-14 Thread Chris McDonough
Refresh was never much of a timesaver for me. Pressing ctrl-C - up arrow - return on the console from which I run Zope is my answer. I know lots of people say that this is too slow, but on my most recent project from the time I type runzope to the time I see ready to handle requests is real

[ZODB-Dev] Blobs revisited...

2005-10-04 Thread Chris McDonough
FYI, Last week, Christian Theune and I muscled the elderly ctheune- blobsupport-branch of ZODB into shape to work again against the ZODB trunk. We ran into some interesting issues with supporting savepoints (difficult to do efficiently with blobs, so we didn't try), I added some

Re: [ZODB-Dev] In search of Information for ZODB University Paper

2005-10-28 Thread Chris McDonough
Hi Marcus, There is a presentation about ZODB by Jim Fulton at http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/proceedings/papers/fulton/zodb3.html . This is probably one of the earliest and most in-depth presentations about the subject. http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage is wildly useful for

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: session problems

2006-01-01 Thread Chris McDonough
I suppose folks includes me. ;-) I'll try to have a look this week... Sorry, I've been avoiding any actual work over the last week or so. - C On Jan 1, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Florent Guillaume wrote: Could folks have a look and tell me what they think of the proposed patch? Actually it is

Re: [ZODB-Dev] RE: lost implementer

2006-01-23 Thread Chris McDonough
of view: it would be great to have ZODB, ZOE, ZCatalog in different eggs :-) Tamas Chris McDonough wrote: See the egg intro doc at http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/ PythonEggs . -- Tamas Hegedus, PhD | phone: (1) 919-966 0329 UNC - Biochem Biophys | fax: (1) 919-966

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Weird ConflictErrors with Zope 2.8.4 - It's been a while ; -)

2006-01-31 Thread Chris McDonough
Rather than chucking this in the collector as-is, it would be useful if you could get me the output of the ZEO log rather than the output of the client log. Right now, the actual traceback is in the ZEO log; the client log only shows that a conflict error happened; not where it happened.

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Weird ConflictErrors with Zope 2.8.4 - It's been a while ; -)

2006-02-01 Thread Chris McDonough
On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Hi Chris, Chris McDonough wrote: Rather than chucking this in the collector as-is, it would be useful if you could get me the output of the ZEO log rather than the output of the client log. Right now, the actual traceback is in the ZEO

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Weird ConflictErrors with Zope 2.8.4 - It's been a while ; -)

2006-02-01 Thread Chris McDonough
On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Chris McDonough wrote: What front end do you use to do the request distribution? Pound. *barf* ew.. Works great. - C ___ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Weird ConflictErrors with Zope 2.8.4 - It's been a while ; -)

2006-02-02 Thread Chris McDonough
On Feb 2, 2006, at 3:11 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Chris McDonough wrote: Pound. *barf* ew.. Works great. Except it doesn't balance load and can't do SSL correctly, right? ;-) I use Apache for the SSL and it balances load well enough for me. Can we stop talking now? ;-) - C

Re: [ZODB-Dev] packaging zodb in eggs.

2006-03-03 Thread Chris McDonough
On Mar 3, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:03:48PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: | I'm taking a stab at packaging the various pieces of ZODB as eggs. | One of the things I'd like to do is to separate the packages of ZODB | that are currently shipped together

Re: [ZODB-Dev] packaging zodb in eggs.

2006-03-03 Thread Chris McDonough
On Mar 3, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: | Well, yes. I've already done that. But it's a hack. The runtime | dependencies aren't a problem, it's the build-time dependencies. I | don't know of a way to say use this header file from this egg to | build this other egg in an egg

Re: [ZODB-Dev] packaging zodb in eggs.

2006-03-03 Thread Chris McDonough
On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Jeremy Hylton wrote: Go go! I don't understand the eggs philosophy. (I succeeded in missing the eggs talk twice at PyCon.) I don't think any of the pieces of ZODB are very useful in isolation. You can't use persistent without transaction, and there isn't much

Re: [ZODB-Dev] packaging zodb in eggs.

2006-03-03 Thread Chris McDonough
On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: BTW, the turbogears folks are interested in using transaction. The transaction package has shallow dependencies on ZODB. A nice start would be to release a separate transaction egg that doesn't depend on ZODB. (Hint, we'll need a separate

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Zodb with Yaml

2006-03-19 Thread Chris McDonough
to be modified, maybe the function names in the code are misleading). - C On Mar 19, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Dieter Maurer wrote: Chris McDonough wrote at 2006-3-18 20:58 -0500: If yaml (or pysyck) supports all of the features of pickle, it's theoretically possible. You would need to track down

Re: [ZODB-Dev] tempstorage to ZEO?

2006-05-31 Thread Chris McDonough
Fine by me. - C On May 31, 2006, at 1:22 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: I was looking, and trying to understand why 'tempstorage' is not included in the ZODB. Since some people might want to share sessions between ZEO clients, and that 'tempstorage' is what is mounted as

[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-dev] tempstorage to ZEO?

2006-05-31 Thread Chris McDonough
On May 31, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:53:14AM +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote: | Sidnei da Silva schrieb: | I was looking, and trying to understand why 'tempstorage' is not | included in the ZODB. | | Since some people might want to share sessions between

[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-dev] tempstorage to ZEO?

2006-05-31 Thread Chris McDonough
On May 31, 2006, at 10:58 PM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:59:36AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: | | On May 31, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: | | On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:49:49AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: | | I've done this (at least with FileStorage) and it's

Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZODB file never updated - import transaction fails...

2006-07-29 Thread Chris McDonough
Since your exception is happening during __del__ and since AFAIK no guarantees are made as to what will exist is sys.modules during any given object's __del__, it's maybe not suprising that you're getting this exception. I don't know that this has anything to do with ZODB in particular.

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-Annce] Technical Preview of Blob support in ZODB

2006-08-31 Thread Chris McDonough
On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Christian Theune wrote: David Pratt wrote: Can you advise whether blobs will make it the trunk any time soon. I see an extfile package now for z3 but would rather see filesystem storage dealt with at the backend than in the app itself. Many thanks. Chris

Re: [ZODB-Dev] HOWTO recover from Data.fs.tmp

2006-10-03 Thread Chris McDonough
On Oct 2, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Juan Pablo Giménez wrote: I'm not blaming the zope team... zope is great! but the real problem wasn't a deleted file... was a corrupted file... and a sysadmin who doesn't read the log file... but... if zope knows about the corrupted Data.fs, why

Re: [ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

2007-11-08 Thread Chris McDonough
On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: class TransactionFailedError(Exception): Cannot perform an operation on a transaction that previously failed. An attempt was made to commit a transaction, or to join a transaction, but this transaction previously raised an

Re: [ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

2007-11-08 Thread Chris McDonough
On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: Why not subclass TransactionError? It didn't before. Should it? Seems logical, but I'm not looking that closely. :) OK. How about zope.transaction? Guido recently told me that people in the Python community at large assume that anything

Re: [ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

2007-11-09 Thread Chris McDonough
On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: On Nov 8, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: How about zope.transaction? Guido recently told me that people in the Python community at large assume that anything in the Zope namespace is assumed to be Zope specific, so I'd rather

Re: [ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

2007-11-09 Thread Chris McDonough
On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: It also contains TimeStamp, which will get moved out of persistent. Why? I don't see any uses of TimeStamp by the transaction package. In your new package, it is only used by its tests

Re: [ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

2007-11-09 Thread Chris McDonough
On Nov 9, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: Yawn. IMO, the test command in setuptools is a waste of time, because it doesn't work with anything else. It runs all the tests, even the doctests, if thats what you mean. See the additional_tests hair in the test modules. My point is

Re: [ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

2007-11-09 Thread Chris McDonough
On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: BTW, it would be nice to now remove the transaction package from the ZODB trunk and make it a dependency. Yes. ZODB's setup.py is polyglotic... it works if setuptools isn't installed. I suspect it shouldn't continue to given that it now

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction egg refactoring breaks zodb trunk

2007-11-11 Thread Chris McDonough
Christian fixed these failures, after I hosed things. These were second-level failures. The first level failure was that the tests couldn't be run at all. The way Christian found the failure was that he had a buildbot which couldn't successfully run the tests because the buildbot didn't

[ZODB-Dev] transaction 1.0a1 released

2007-12-18 Thread Chris McDonough
FTR, I tagged a release of the new transaction package (http://svn.zope.org/transaction ) as 1.0a1 and uploaded it to PyPi http://pypi.python.org/pypi/transaction/1.0a1) , which is essentially the ZODB transaction machinery divorced from any ZODB package dependencies. The next ZODB release

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: Duplicate tests

2008-01-23 Thread Chris McDonough
Thomas Lotze wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Chris McDonough did the transaction split off. He's probably the best one to answer your other questions. I know, but then he's subscribed to this list afaik, so I'll just wait for him to respond. I'm afraid I can't look at this right away but I'll put

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Database conflict error

2008-04-20 Thread Chris McDonough
ZODB uses an optimistic concurrency model to deal with simultaneous changes to the same object from multiple connections. In practice, this means your software needs to be willing to retry requests when they fail due to one of these errors. Usually this means (in newer ZODBs), aborting the

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Proposal (version 2): cross database reference seat belt

2009-04-28 Thread Chris McDonough
On 4/28/09 1:54 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: An interim step, if we're in a hurry to get 3.9 out, is to simply add the flag. This would disallow cross-database references in new applications. These applications could still support multiple databases by providing application-level traversal across

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Cannot import name utils + class.__dict__ not accessible

2009-06-17 Thread Chris McDonough
I'm not sure of the exact cause of this error, but I'll note that one your deployment looks like it's using the slow (non-C) versions of the stuff in zope.interface, which usually means that somehow the zope.interface C extensions couldn't be compiled. You might try checking this from a debug

Re: [ZODB-Dev] undo (and storage interface) brokenness

2009-12-23 Thread Chris McDonough
Jim Fulton wrote: So, I repeat: is anyone actually using undo these days? I haven't used undo (not the APIs nor via any Zope UI) in years. - C ___ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Checking the length of OOBTree

2010-04-10 Thread Chris McDonough
list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev -- Chris McDonough Agendaless Consulting, Fredericksburg VA The repoze.bfg Web Application Framework Book: http://bfg.repoze.org/book ___ For more information about ZODB, see

Re: [ZODB-Dev] The database root: It's a trap!

2010-05-12 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 20:16 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: C. I'd really like to be able to configure what the root object is as database creation time. That way it can be application specific. That sounds reasonable, but doesn't address the default behavior. Default

[ZODB-Dev] transaction exception-related reference leaks

2010-09-13 Thread Chris McDonough
I noticed some weird behavior with exceptions and transactions recently (in particular, a WSGI server which relies on a __del__ to close its client connection wasn't disconnecting from the client immediately when a conflict error was raised by ZODB, but would indeed disconnect if a conflict error

[ZODB-Dev] transaction release

2010-09-16 Thread Chris McDonough
If no one complains, I'm going to make another transaction package release this evening. - C ___ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction release

2010-09-16 Thread Chris McDonough
Tagged and released to PyPI as 1.1.1. - C On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:05 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: If no one complains, I'm going to make another transaction package release this evening. - C ___ For more information about ZODB, see

[ZODB-Dev] transaction Attempts class

2012-03-28 Thread Chris McDonough
The transaction package offers a nice feature, where you can say: import transaction for attempt in transaction.attempts(3): with attempt as t: ... do something ... If do something raises a ConflictError (or any other retryable error), the next attempt is tried,

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction Attempts class

2012-03-28 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 08:33 +0200, Thierry Florac wrote: I used this feature just a few days ago. It was in a batch application where conflict errors can frequently occur, and they **seemed** to be handled correctly. I doubt it's working correctly if you have any retryable errors happening

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction Attempts class

2012-03-28 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 17:06 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 14:21 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: ... A decorator for running some code in the context of a txn and retrying retryable exceptions would be nice

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction Attempts class

2012-03-29 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 18:37 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 17:06 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 14:21 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: ... A decorator for running some code

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction Attempts class

2012-03-29 Thread Chris McDonough
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 07:18 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 17:06 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 14:21 -0400, Jim

Re: [ZODB-Dev] transaction Attempts class

2012-03-31 Thread Chris McDonough
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 07:49 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 07:18 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 17:06 -0400, Jim

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Progress report: porting persistent, BTrees to Python3

2012-12-17 Thread Chris McDonough
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 22:10 +0100, Godefroid Chapelle wrote: Le 15/12/12 01:52, Tres Seaver a écrit : I fixed the remainig issues in persistent and released 4.0.5 today: its tests properly exercise the C extensions Under Python 3.2 / 3.3. I want to express my thanks to you, Tres, for