[ZODB-Dev] OID length

[Shane Hathaway]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Shane]
> 
>>>>It can do this because it has to provide its own DB and Connection
>>>>objects anyway.
> 
> 
> [Tim]
> 
>>>I trust that's for more reasons than _just_ because it doesn't want to
>>>use '\0'*8 as the root-object oid.
> 
> 
> [Shane]
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I meant I hoped that you went to the bother of providing your own
> implementations of DB and Connection for more reasons than just because the
> ZODB DB and Connection implementations have a few lines special-casing z64.

Ah, I see.  No, uniform OIDs are just a cog in the steamroller I rolled 
over ZODB. ;-)

Shane