[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: ZODB3/ZODB - FileStorage.py:1.105.2.6.2.2

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 15 November 2002 4:20 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> Two important fixes for backpointer handling.

Backpointers seem to attract more than their fair share of bugs.

Their only use is to avoid copying bulk data during an undo, right? Do we=
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how much space is actually being saved? I wonder if they are worth the ex=
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complexity in FileStorage.

(not that there is anything we can do to change this now....)