[ZODB-Dev] RelStorage now in Subversion

[Jim Fulton]

On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Shane Hathaway wrote:

Thanks for this significant contribution!

> Andreas Jung wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for the great work!
>> One question: what is the ZODB patch actually doing? Is it for  
>> optimization purposes? Is it specfic to RelStorage or does it  
>> provide some general ZODB improvement(s)?
>
> The patch is intended to be a general ZODB improvement that enables  
> ZODB to interact in a natural way with data stores that already  
> provide MVCC semantics.  It does this by allowing the storage to  
> bind a separate storage instance to each ZODB.Connection, rather  
> than attaching all ZODB.Connections to a single storage.  The patch  
> also allows the storage to provide object invalidations through  
> polling.
>
> I hope the patch, or a modified version of the patch, will be  
> accepted for inclusion in ZODB 3.9.  A monkey patch version is  
> possible, but I'm trying to avoid that.


I'm tentatively planning on including it in 3.9.  I need to review it  
carefully. I also plan to make other changes in the invalidation  
mechanisms, so I'd like to take this into account at the same time.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation