[ZODB-Dev] Re: ZODB packing error

[Casey Duncan]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:19:00 -0400
Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

[..]
> Despite that it's possible to implement, I should say: who cares? 
> Pack is an infrequent operation and conflict resolution is a
> performance optimization.  If an infrequent pack causes an occasional
> performance hack to fail, it doesn't make any significant difference. 
> In particular, the conflict resolution might have failed anyway, so
> the application programmer still needs to be prepared for it.

AFAIK we weren't talking about performance, but not creating dangling
references when packing. I agree that pack performance is not terribly
important.

-Casey