[ZODB-Dev] create unique container keys

[Adam GROSZER]

Hello Christian,

Yeah, uuid was my guess.
What about some human-eatable counter-like thing?
Btrees have some length with conflict resolution support, but I'm not
sure that could be used to make a key and __name__.

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:47:07 AM, you wrote:

CT> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:19 +0200, Adam GROSZER wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> What's a good practice to create unique container keys for a heavily
>> loaded application? (I mean lots of writes to the same container)
>> Obviously having a counter on the container and incrementing and using
>> that for key gives write conflicts.
>> 
>> What do the experts use?

CT> If uniqueness is your only concern then using a large number range and
CT> consuming numbers randomly will perform better than incrementing.

CT> Christian



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