[ZODB-Dev] incorrect previous pointer?

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu Oct 9 15:19:11 EDT 2003


Andrew Sydelko wrote at 2003-10-8 14:00 -0500:
 > The following is an excerpt from the ZEO_EVENT log. What exactly does
 > it mean?

Different versions of the same object are linked via a previous
pointer in FileStorage.

Apparently, ZEO found an object the previous pointer did not
point to an earlier version of the same object.

 > Is it a problem?
 
It is a warning. There is no direct danger. But it should not happen ...

 > Is it fixable? (easily?)

Packing will probably get rid of the bogous previous pointers.



Dieter



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