Then perhaps I should rephrase my question: Is there a way, by means of configuration, to reduce the size of history to reduce the cost of packing?
thanks, Flávio On Jan 22, 2008 11:44 PM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:43:42PM -0200, Flavio Coelho wrote: > > Actually what I am trying to run away from is the "packing monster" ;-) > > > > I want to be able to use an OO database without the inconvenience of > having > > it growing out of control and then having to spend hours packing the > > database every once in a while. (I do a lot of writes in my DBs). Do > this > > Holy grail of databases exist? :-) > > I've learned to love this aspect of FileStorage. Sure, the Data.fs is > measured in gigabytes, but when the users run to you crying "help! help! > why is this bit of data not what I expected it to be?" you can dig into > object history from a debugzope console and figure what changed it and > when. Or restore deleted data, for that matter. > > Marius Gedminas > -- > MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years > of careful development. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHlpwGkVdEXeem148RAql7AJ9ZF7HMXpFb3+MMXXSqMdQ7j0Ao/gCcD+/0 > 0Fgx/gHD4PqZaig9OkBPhhw= > =NRh4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: > http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ > > ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev > > -- Flávio Codeço Coelho ---------------------------------------------------------------- "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." Indira Gandhi ==================================== registered Linux user # 386432 get counted at http://counter.li.org ----------------------------------------------------------------
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