[ZODB-Dev] ConflictError vs Doom

[Jim Fulton]

On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Christian Theune wrote:

>
> Am Montag, den 07.01.2008, 09:48 -0500 schrieb Jim Fulton:
>> In general, a conflict error should prevent a commit unless it is
>> dealt with.  I think my motivation and yours are the same.  The doom
>> mechanism is meant to deal with read conflicts. It isn't needed for
>> write conflicts.
>
> Grepping through the ZODB for "doom(" I couldn't spot a place where  
> read
> conflicts would automatically doom the transaction.


Looking myself, I see that ZODB doesn't doom the transaction but   
prevents commit by raising a read conflict if the transaction is  
committed.

I wonder if anyone is using the transaction doom mechanism.  If not,  
we should remove it.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation