[ZODB-Dev] Synchronizing connections

[Jim Fulton]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> > Currently we run a single Quixote process that connects to a ZEO.
> > We'd like to run multiple processes, but then we run into a problem.
> > At the start of a request being serviced, each process needs to
> > synchronize its connection in order to see the current state of the
> > database; the only way to do this currently is to commit a trivial
> > transaction.  The problem is that all the processes are then modifying
> > the same trivial object, so ConflictErrors occur fairly often.
> 
> Connection.sync() perhaps?

Yes, but this was plumbed through to ZEO only recently I'm afraid.
You'll need to get recent ZEO and ZODB from CVS.

Jim

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