[Zope] ZODB vs LocalFS

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Mon Apr 5 03:42:11 EDT 2004


Ryan Boder wrote at 2004-4-4 03:11 -0400:
> ...
>These openoffice filess will be changed often and may be large. I think that
>ZODB keeps all old copies of a file each time it changes. Changing large
>openoffice documents all the time would make the ZODB huge, right? Can I
>make ZODB only store the most recent version of these files, instead of
>keeping a history of all the versions?

No, but you can frequently (e.g. daily) pack the ZODB storage.
Packing means to discard non current versions older than a specified
date.

-- 
Dieter



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