[ZODB-Dev] OID length

[Shane Hathaway]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Shane Hathaway]
>>It can do this because it has to provide its own DB and Connection
>>objects anyway.
> 
> 
> I trust that's for more reasons than _just_ because it doesn't want to use
> '\0'*8 as the root-object oid.

It's for uniformity.  In Ape, the strategy for choosing OIDs is 
pluggable, and the plugin that chooses OIDs has the opportunity to 
choose the root OID.  Otherwise the root OID would be a special case 
that every OID chooser would have to be aware of.

However, I wouldn't have gone to this effort if it weren't so easy. 
There's very little code that cares what the root OID is.

Shane