[Zope] Reindex of catalog - keep getting ConflictErrors ?

[Gitte Wange]

Onsdag 05 november 2003 10:16   skrev du:
> Gitte Wange wrote at 2003-11-1 00:01 +0100:
>  > At 22:55 31-10-2003, you wrote:
>  > >Gitte Wange wrote at 2003-10-31 15:37 +0100:
>  > >  > I have a ZCatalog (in the shape of a portal_catalog in CMF).
>  > >  > Everytime I go to the Advanced tab and tries to reindex the
>  > >  > catalog, I
>  > >
>  > > get
>  > >
>  > >  > this error and traceback:
>  > >  > ZODB.POSException.ConflictError
>  >
>  > [SNIP error traceback]
>  >
>  > >  > ConflictError: database conflict error (oid 0000000000000006,
>  > >  > serial was 0350b50baca92b4c, now 0350b50a6e739abb)
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Why is that ?
>  > >
>  > >Indeed: why does your "reindex catalog" write to a session?
>  > >
>  > >Someone else does, too. This gives you a ConflictError.
>  >
>  > Thanks Dieter - at least I know what's causing the error.
>  > Now I only need to find out why :-)
>  >
>  > The error has been introduced after I switched to use
>  > PluggableUserFolder with my own SessionLogin plugin - maybe I should
>  > start to look for the cause there.
>
> Do you write into the session?
>
> Even if you only read it, it may cause the problem.
> Reading a session resets its timeout and therefore entails
> writing.

Thanks for clearing that out :-)
I guess something in my identification mechanism went wrong - I had made it 
create a user object even if the username didn't exists.
Fixing that bug also fixed the catalog bug :-)

-- 
Gitte Wange
Technical Manager

Email: gitte at mmmanager.org
Web: http://www.mmmanager.org
Tlf: +45 36 46 20 02

> We'll tell you when we try out the code you've written ;-)
Ahha, the classic open-source sanity pill/ thorn in my side....
What You Want Is What You Should Code Yourself ( WYWIWYSCY )

    -- Tom Smith: Zope Mailing List, About using ZODB as ODBC data source.