[Zope-dev] Very severe memory leak

[Shane Hathaway]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:35:58PM -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
>>They are probably in the ZCatalog.  Remove all metadata fields you can. 
>> If you have index dates, use DateTimeIndexes rather than the standard 
>>indexes.
> 
> 
> Hmm. ZCatalog provides a DateIndex, is this what you mean?
> Googling for DateTimeIndex & zope turns up exactly two results, in 
> German which I can't read. (the google-supplied translations are
> pretty much gibberish.)

Yes, I meant DateIndex.

> Hmmm again: I notice that out-of-the-box, CMF Default's portal_catalog
> uses the following:
> 
> Date		FieldIndex
> created		FieldIndex
> effective	FieldIndex
> expires		FieldIndex
> modified	FieldIndex
> 
> Why are these FieldIndex rather than DateTime index?

No one has corrected them, probably out of fear that something might break.

Shane