[Zope-dev] GADFLY Database: Can it lose data if the Zope process is aborted?

[Joachim Werner]

Hi!

We have a very strange case of data loss: A client of us is using a Gadfly
DB to store some news items. He reported that he lost a couple of his most
recent data entries when we restarted our servers after applying the latest
Hotfix.

 I know that Gadfly is not to be used for serious applications etc., but I
thought that this was because of performance issues, not because it can lose
data. Has anybody had similar experiences? Our first tests say that Gadfly
stores all INSERTs into the DB file right after they have been commited. So
the only explanation for data loss would be some strange caching that is not
always used ...

Joachim