[ZODB-Dev] 8-byte oids
Christian Theune
ct at gocept.com
Fri Aug 14 02:38:00 EDT 2009
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On 08/14/2009 08:36 AM, Christian Theune wrote:
> On 08/13/2009 10:42 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> IPersistent specifies OIDs to be non-empty strings and reserves the
>>> 8-byte OID consisting of 8 null characters. Lots of ZODB
>>> infrastructure assumes that oids are 8 bytes. I'm tempted to say that
>>> oids must be 8-byte strings.
>
>> +1. The simplified standard promotes interoperability.
>
> The difference to the spec before would be that previously strings with
> less than 8 bytes were allowed?
Never mind, reading one of your mails in the other thread actually
cleared this up.
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