On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Jim Fulton wrote: >> Thanks for writing this up! >> Do we really need per-object control? >> It would be simpler to simply allow or disallow (new) cross-data >> references at the database level. >> I think the most common use case for cross-database connection >> limitation is support for "mounts". With mounts, there are a >> small number of direct references between databases. This could >> be addressed by instantiating a database in a mode that allows >> cross- database references and using that instantiation to >> establish the mounts. All other instantiations would disallow new >> cross-database references. >> Do you have a specific use case that requires _p_check_xref? > > No. Good point. > > I am hoping that even after we configure the system to disallow new > cross-database references, we can still make other modifications to > the objects that contain cross-database references.
Right. > For example, if I have a site object containing a catalog in > another database, I should still be able to modify the title > attribute of the site, as long as I don't try to change the catalog. Yup, although now that you mention it, I fear it will be hard to make this work. :) I need to think about it. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ 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
