Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-08 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 04:58 PM 6/8/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: On Thursday 07 June 2001 21:28, Phillip J. Eby wrote: Upon being told to perform a transaction or subtransaction commit, the transaction would notify all the ruleAgents, and then all the indexingAgents. Objects could still subscribe to either

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Thu, 31 May 2001 10:36:55 -0400 (EDT), Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2001, Toby Dickenson wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2001 10:03:31 -0400 (EDT), Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now ZCatalog randomly generates ConflictErrors even if there are no conflicts

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Toby Dickenson
My last post didnt make much sense. This time ill include all the words in my sentence Large catalog updates (where every object is reindexed) also generate a lot of conflicts. Is that last bit true? I thought 'Update Catalog' created *new* indexes. There might be a conflict on the root

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Thursday 07 June 2001 07:43, Toby Dickenson wrote: Large catalog updates (where every object is reindexed) also generate a lot of conflicts. Is that last bit true? I thought 'Update Catalog' created *new* indexes. There might be a conflict on the root catalog object, but not on the

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Withers
Shane Hathaway wrote: But I think I have a solution for all of the issues in conflict resolution. If you, or anyone else, is also interested in this, please show support (if only by saying please do this!) :-) I can't work on it unless I have a reason to. Please do this! :-) I'm

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Enge
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Hathaway wrote: It really doesn't matter how many conflicts there are. Within a single transaction, 1 conflict is as bad as 100. Why? But I think I have a solution for all of the issues in conflict resolution. Whee! If you, or anyone else, is also

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread John D . Heintz
Me too! Me too! John On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:49, Chris Withers wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: But I think I have a solution for all of the issues in conflict resolution. If you, or anyone else, is also interested in this, please show support (if only by saying please do this!) :-) I

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Dan L. Pierson
--On Thursday, June 07, 2001 09:34:54 AM -0400 Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think I have a solution for all of the issues in conflict resolution. If you, or anyone else, is also interested in this, please show support (if only by saying please do this!) :-) I can't work

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Thursday 07 June 2001 11:51, Erik Enge wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Hathaway wrote: It really doesn't matter how many conflicts there are. Within a single transaction, 1 conflict is as bad as 100. Why? Because in Zope it means the whole request is processed again (which can lead

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Thursday 07 June 2001 12:17, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 09:34 AM 6/7/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: One thing I didn't make clear in the proposal is that I'm interested in repurposing ZCatalog as a general ZODB indexing mechanism and essentially moving it down from the application layer

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:07 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: On Thursday 07 June 2001 12:17, Phillip J. Eby wrote: The only catch was that this would still produce conflicts at the head end of the linked list. :( Of course, that was in the days before ZODB conflict resolution. Nowadays, you could

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Phillip J. Eby wrote: That is, in ZPatterns one can specify triggers such as: WHEN OBJECT DELETED, CHANGED CALL someCatalog.manage_uncatalog(self.absolute_url(1)) WHEN OBJECT ADDED, CHANGED CALL someCatalog.manage_catalog(self,self.absolute_url(1)) After I read this again I realized what

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Phillip J. Eby wrote: I was thinking that certain types of objects would be committed by the transaction manager before all others. In this case, the catalog (or a special object in the catalog) would be committed first. It would resolve all conflicts in the contained

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-06-07 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:07 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: That is, in ZPatterns one can specify triggers such as: WHEN OBJECT DELETED, CHANGED CALL someCatalog.manage_uncatalog(self.absolute_url(1)) WHEN OBJECT ADDED, CHANGED CALL

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Enge
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Shane Hathaway wrote: I have written a proposal. So, if I understand correctly, when this is implemented, will the ZCatalog always resolve conflicts and never raise ConflictErrors? If there are no ConflictErrors in the main object system? I think I'm missing the point

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-05-31 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Thu, 31 May 2001 10:03:31 -0400 (EDT), Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2001, Erik Enge wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Shane Hathaway wrote: I have written a proposal. So, if I understand correctly, when this is implemented, will the ZCatalog always resolve

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-05-31 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Toby Dickenson wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2001 10:03:31 -0400 (EDT), Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now ZCatalog randomly generates ConflictErrors even if there are no conflicts in the data being indexed. It's quite rare, however, and there's machinery that

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Enge
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Shane Hathaway wrote: How did you miss the point? That's exactly the point! :-) Oh :) Right now ZCatalog randomly generates ConflictErrors even if there are no conflicts in the data being indexed. This is why I think I've missed a/the point: wouldn't it be better to

Re: [Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-05-31 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Erik Enge wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2001, Shane Hathaway wrote: How did you miss the point? That's exactly the point! :-) Oh :) Right now ZCatalog randomly generates ConflictErrors even if there are no conflicts in the data being indexed. This is why I think I've

[Zope-dev] Bulletproof ZCatalog proposal

2001-05-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
I have written a proposal. http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ArmoredCatalog Could it be that we're involved in yet another Battle of Fredericksburg and we're trying to save innocent ZCatalogs from a ZODB conflict? Nawww... ;-) Shane ___