[ZODB-Dev] Proposing to drop some DB decoys

[Jim Fulton]

Tim Peters wrote:
> The database (ZODB.DB.DB) class contains 3 related public methods I'd like
> to get rid of for ZODB 3.3:
> 
>     cacheMeanAge()
>     cacheMeanDeac()
>     cacheMeanDeal()
> 
> There are no docs for them, no tests, and none of them does something
> useful.  If you call one of them, it suppresses a pile of AttributeErrors
> internally, two routines down the chain, then returns None.
> 
> cacheMeanAge() might be a handy thing to know, but (a) there's no code to
> compute it; and, (b) the current version of the FileStorage cache does LRU
> replacement by circular ring position, not by timestamp (i.e., the cache age
> of an item may not be discoverable in a meaningful sense).
> 
> I've no idea what ...Deac and ...Deal might have been intended for.  So
> maybe they *are* implementable <wink -- if you want, I'll make ...Deac()
> return 'c' and ...Deal() return 'l').
> 
> Any objections to dropping these decoys?

+1

Burn the decoys!

Jim


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