[Zope-dev] Re: The remaining spanner in the works :-)

[Shane Hathaway]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> Finally, here's a theoretical solution that I think would be ideal for 
>> a lot of people: if we could just ask the RDBMS for its current 
>> transaction ID, Zope could keep track of the last transaction ID it 
>> knew about, and clear the caches when another process made a change.  
>> This solution may yield the highest performance for Zope-centric 
>> applications.  It would also remove the need for my MD5 hack. ;-)
> 
> 
> But would it work for non-transactional storages like file systems?

Nope, unless it's a journaled filesystem and we pulled out the journal 
log entry number. ;-)

Shane