<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2008 6:45 PM, Dieter Maurer <<a href="mailto:dieter@handshake.de">dieter@handshake.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Flavio Coelho wrote at 2008-1-22 17:43 -0200:<br>> ...<br>>Actually what I am trying to run away from is the "packing monster" ;-)<br><br>Jim has optimized pack consideraly (--> "zc.FileStorage").
<br><br>I, too, have worked on pack optimization the last few days (we<br>cannot yet use Jims work because we are using ZODB 3.4 while<br>Jims optimization is for ZODB 3.8) and obtained speedups of<br>more then 80 persent.
<br><br>>I want to be able to use an OO database without the inconvenience of having<br>>it growing out of control and then having to spend hours packing the<br>>database every once in a while. (I do a lot of writes in my DBs). Do this
<br>>Holy grail of databases exist? :-)<br><br>The pack equivalent of Postgres is called "vacuum full".<br>It is more disruptive than packing ....<br><br><br>Maybe, you have a look at the old "bsddbstorage".
<br>It could be configured to not use historical data.<br>Support was discontinued due to lack of interest --<br>but I report this for the second time within a week<br>or so. This may indicate a renewed interest.</blockquote>
<div><br>Thanks I will look at it.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><br>BTW: stay on the list. I do not like personal emails.
</blockquote><div><br>sorry, I never meant to email you personally, this due to the default configuration of this list, that sets the <reply-to> to the poster instead of to the list...So I may have been too quick to the send button on a reply.
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><br><br>--<br><font color="#888888">Dieter<br></font></blockquote></div><br>
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