[Zope-dev] Re: Maybe Corrupted ZCatalog but ...

[Tres Seaver]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:47:19 +0100
> Eric Brun <eric.brun at univ-savoie.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Yes but impossible to update it because it is too big, and the
>>transaction never finish or abort because of time out.
>>
>>I don't know how to do this.
>>
>>Have you a idea for help me ?
> 
> 
> You might try using another browser (like mozilla) or updating the
> catalog from python. In theory though the browser timeout shouldn't
> cause the transaction to fail although I could be wrong about that.

If you can quiesce other writes to the system, then a long-running 
recatalog request might have a chance to complete;  it will typically 
lose repeatedly to ConflictErrors if shorter-lived writers are committing.

Tres.
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