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

[Andy McKay]

I thought gadfly didn't store data between restarts. Or am I losing it?

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joachim Werner" <joe@iuveno-net.de>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: [Zope-dev] GADFLY Database: Can it lose data if the Zope process is
aborted?


> 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
>
>
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