[Zope] Re: updating catalog takes forever (never really completes)

[Florent Guillaume]

Dieter Maurer  <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:
> Christopher N. Deckard writes:
>  > I'd also like to note that I had to update the catalog because after
>  > removing two meta-data fields, a lot of the other meta-data had the
>  > wrong values in it.  Say I had foo, bar and baz as meta-data fields.
>  >  If I remove bar, foo would have baz's data and baz foo's.  Ideas on
>  > that one?  Known bug?  Side-effect of too many meta-data fields?
>
> Its an implementation side effect: The meta data for an objects
> is stored as tuple; it does not contain the names. Therefore,
> when you change the metadata scheme, the tuples are no longer in sync
> and you must rebuild the metadata tuples for each object.

Well, let's say it's a bug, period. :-)

Florent
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