Jim Fulton wrote:
It's a shame ZODB doesn't turn POSKeyErrors into proper Broken objects
as it does when the class can no longer be imported. The problem with
POSKeyErrors is that they prevent you accessing *any object that refers
to the broken object* not just the missing object itself. This means
that when objects *do* go missing, the data loss can be much much worse
than it needs to be.
What does everyone else think?
I think you are right and this should be treated as a bug.
Okay, so I count two issues:
- packing and multiple mounted storages
- POSKeyErrors resulting in failure to load referring object rather than
creation of a broken referred object
Where would you like me to file these bug reports?
I'm not sure the situation is as bad as you're suggesting, since I
vaguely recall that inter-object references encode the class of the
referenced object, allowing a parent to load even if its child is gone.
I'm not sure if this is the case for cross-database references. I don't
remember the details. Even if it isn't, we should probably create a
broken object rather than giving a POSKeyError.
That would certainly aid minimising data loss create by the first and
any other POSKeyError-causing bugs ;-)
cheers,
Chris
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