[Zope] How many objects can ZODB hold?

Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:44:18 -0500


sbabu@tnc.org wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Probably a dumb question: I know ZODB stores everything
> in an Object table. So, this table probably has a fixed length
> primary key. To maintain this, let us say there should be
> a counter which tracks the number of records in the table.
> 
> The question is, is there any limit to this? Like Zope can hold
> 1million objects?

Zope's OID uses 64-bit integers;  by my calculations, that would
cause a really high-write site to run out of OIDs sometime after
the heat-death of the universe :)

Tres.
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