Tim Peters wrote at 2005-3-30 08:39 -0500: >... >[Dieter Maurer] >> The last packing bug was some time in the past. With current Zope >> versions, there is no known packing bug. > >It's not that packing introduces new problems, it's that packing isn't an >error recovery procedure: if the POSKeyErrors persist after the pack, then >packing will have destroyed some amount of original evidence forever, >potentially making it that much harder for someone to figure out how to >repair the POSKeyErrors.
Thus, the person who fears his storage gets too huge makes a backup copy (for analysis) and then packs the production storage. I do not advocate packing as an error recovery procedure. It is just that isolated POSKeyErrors need not to prevent packing. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
