The system is making the assumption that if you update indexes
individually, you know what you're doing. Passing an index name into
catalogObject was always meant to do as much or as little work as you
specified with respect to the names of the indexes; it was only by
mistake that metadata got updated when indexes were specified. The new
(correct) behavior may break some applications that depended on the bug,
and I'm sorry it broke yours, but it was indeed a bug.
And, doh, yes, I need to forward-port the fix to the 2.7 branch and the
HEAD. :-(
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 16:49, Dieter Maurer wrote:
Yuppie wrote at 2003-10-3 10:14 +0200:
Yesterday I spent some hours tracking down why catalog Metadata and
catalog Indexes are getting out of sync in my CMF Site.
I found that checkin
http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/Catalog.py.diff?r1=1.98.6.10r2=1.98.6.11
including this new condition
code
if not idxs:
# if the caller specifies that we should update only a
# specific set of indexes, we don't do a metadata update.
self.updateMetadata(object, uid)
/code
Could anybody tell me what's the rationale behind that checkin?
- it breaks backwards compatibility
- it's only in Zope-2_6-branch, not in Zope-2_7-branch or HEAD
- I can't see what this 'if' is good for anyway
I can ;-)
The idxs argument is often provided to update only special indexes:
e.g. workflow indexes or AllowedRolesAndUsers and when you
update selected indexes from the Indexes tab.
In these cases, it is often not necessary to update the Metadata.
Metadata updates are often monstruous. In one of our applications,
Metadata updates are responsible for a 500 kB transaction
when a single workflow state changes.
I am now advocating not to use Metadata at all.
They are only relevant when you process large result sets
(e.g. for sorting or statistics).
Dieter
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