Bare "except" dangerous to ZODB? was Re: [Zope-dev] Accept-Charset hearders causing 500 internal server error.[correct but not lenient]

Paul Winkler pw_lists@slinkp.com
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:15:45 -0800


On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:47:58PM -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> This doesn't seem to be a showstopper for now, but as more applications 
> use ZODB, it could become a bigger problem.

Well, what kind of errors can this cause in the ZODB?
If it's just a matter of writing a mixture of old and new
data to the ZODB, that's annoying but I agree it's not a showstopper.
If it does in fact lead to FileStorage damage, that's another
story. I'm still feeling touchy about the latter since 
I recently found (and still have not explained) >10k "bad transaction 
length" errors, 700 "invalid transaction length" errors, and 200 
POSKeyErrors in a single FileStorage.

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