[ZODB-Dev] Tracking down a freeze (deadlock?)

[Jim Fulton]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote at 2005-3-4 14:45 -0500:
> 
>>...
> 
> [DM]
> 
>>>The ZODB documentation promisses minimal requirements to make Python
>>>classes persistent. It does *NOT* list that "__del__" must not be used.
>>
>>I'm not sure which docs you have in mind, but I'm sure that indeed none of
>>them say this.  If we decide to disallow __del__, I'm equally unsure of
>>where to document it so that people would see it.
> 
> 
> I have read the "ZODB3.{pdf,html}" documentation on "zope.org"
> and Andrew's ZODB tutorial.
> 
> I think both of them should get a warning: do not use "__del__".

Agreed. Let's smeone add this to the rules of persistence.

BTW, I ran into a similar problem when working on fixing
ZClassesd for 2.8.  I change the way invalidations are handled
in a way that will probably fix this problem. :)

Jim

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