-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/27/10 12:29 , Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: >> What do folks think about this? Should missing records be ignored? Or >> should the missing record cause the pack (or maybe just GC) to fail? > > Mmh, I think having the pack succeed would be nice. It can sometimes > take a while until you can fix those PosKeyErrors. Not everyone has > the skill to do that. Preventing the ZODB from growing indefinitely > during that time would be nice. > > But doing GC on an inconsistent state is probably a bad idea.
IMHO the script should default to failing if the data is inconsistent. Ignoring the error should be a conscious gesture, the user should have to supply some flag like "--ignore-errors" if inconsistencies should really be ignored. jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkvWvXkACgkQRAx5nvEhZLJqSQCcCoLaj1VvEiV/1TF2rQQzAQxX iMsAniKcV5iWx3W7ePyJ0JrZBAVIVFx8 =LzxX -----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 https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
