[ZODB-Dev] Re: ZODB packing error

[Casey Duncan]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 10:10:55 -0400
Barry Warsaw <barry at zope.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:07, Casey Duncan wrote:
> 
> > Another approach might be to increase the pack time automagically so
> > that it falls just before the start time of all transactions that
> > are in-progress. This would mean that "pack 0" actually might me
> > "pack to 1 minute ago" if a transaction that started a minute ago
> > was still going when the pack was invoked.
> 
> Or, change the semantics of "pack 0" to mean "pack to the just before
> the start time of the earliest current in-progress transaction".

Yup, that's what I'm saying (just not nearly so succinctly ;^) 

I'm trying to come up with senarios where there is still a problem with
overlapping transactions. I have a sneaking suspiction (or perhaps
paranoia ;^) that there still are.

-Casey