Yeah, Thanks for all the info. You know uninformed implies more paranoid! Anyway, I guess by the time my ZODB fills up, we'll be using Windows XP 10e23 and it'll probably be the only thing left alive - because by then MS Wreck-A-Nice-Beach (recognize-speech) technology would've rendered CTRL-ALT-DEL keyboards obsolete) in the universe :-) V.Satheesh Babu Web Technologies Group, (703)-841-5348 sbabu@tnc.org The Nature Conservancy http://www.tnc.org http://vsbabu.csoft.net "The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on." --- Jone's Law - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Tres Seaver" <tseaver@digicool.com> Subject: Re: [Zope] How many objects can ZODB hold? Date: 02/16/01 18:44 sbabu@tnc.org wrote:

Hi,

Probably a dumb question: I know ZODB stores everything in an Object table. So, this table probably has a fixed length primary key. To maintain this, let us say there should be a counter which tracks the number of records in the table.

The question is, is there any limit to this? Like Zope can hold 1million objects?

Zope's OID uses 64-bit integers; by my calculations, that would cause a really high-write site to run out of OIDs sometime after the heat-death of the universe :) Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org