[ZODB-Dev] Re: Ruby/Smalltalk OODB
Sean Allen
sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com
Tue Jun 3 15:45:54 EDT 2008
On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Benji York wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gary Poster <gary at zope.com> wrote:
>>
>> What you *can't* do out of the box is ask "hey, what products have an
>> attribute that points to this brand?". That's a back-reference,
>> and that
>> needs solutions like the ones to which I was referring.
>
> In other words: if you want an index of references (or any attribute
> for
> that matter), you have to set it up (just as you would for a RDBMS).
but i could just loop over all the products checking the brand.
and if that statement doesnt set off alarm bells then i feel
comfortable in my understanding
if not how i managed to
1. misinterpret something and
2. how i managed to write code that actually supported that
misinterpretation.
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