[Zope] zodb Q

[Kevin Dangoor]

----- Original Message -----
From: "-" <kedai@kedai.com.my>
To: "Kevin Dangoor" <kid@kendermedia.com>; <bak@nstp.com.my>;
<zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] zodb Q


> your guess on catalog aware is right on the dot.  the site
(www.emedia.com.my)
> is mainly a news site.   articles are stored via a pubZclass and is
catalog
> aware.  i've been updating the catalog hourly to stop numerical error when
doing
> searches.

I haven't had this problem with my Catalog. I have about 1,700 CatalogAware
objects and searching them seems to work just fine. They don't change very
frequently though.

>  will updating the catalog help reduce the size?  i see that it does
> not.  it may have caused the increase.  if i stop updating the catalog,
users
> will see the random numerical key error.  how to sync the catalog only
when
> necessary, instead of reindexing.

As long as you call reindex_object after you make a change to any of your
CatalogAware objects, the catalog shouldn't really get out of sync. It's
been working fine for me...

Kevin