Tim Peters wrote at 2003-9-11 23:50 -0400: > ... > You can google on the phrase to get a ton of more-or-less abstract overviews > of the concept. The short course in ZODB is that, when MVCC is in effect, a > read will return the state of the object as of the time the current > transaction began, even if the object has subsequently been modified by some > other transaction.
Whoever wants to use it right now: the "no more ReadConflictErrors" patch on <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> does precisely this (for storages that support history information). Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )