[ZODB-Dev] changing the pickle protocol

[Tim Peters]

[John Belmonte]
> As an experiment, I'd like to compare the size of my database between
> the stock ZODB3-3.3a3 and one modified to use pickle protocol to 2.
>
> There are many references to the pickle module to wade through.  Could
> anyone provide some hints as to which are significant?

It would be much easier to change Python to act as if the proto argument
were always 2.  Short of that, "it depends", on all the details of what you
pickle and how you use ZODB.

Note that proto isn't a realistic option before Python 2.3.4 is released:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2004-February/039736.html