Then perhaps I should rephrase my question:<br><br>Is there a way, by means of configuration, to reduce the size of history to reduce the cost of packing?<br><br>thanks,<br><br>Flávio<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 22, 2008 11:44 PM, Marius Gedminas <
<a href="mailto:mgedmin@b4net.lt">mgedmin@b4net.lt</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;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:43:42PM -0200, Flavio Coelho wrote:
<br>> Actually what I am trying to run away from is the "packing monster" ;-)<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></div>I've learned to love this aspect of FileStorage. Sure, the Data.fs is<br>measured in gigabytes, but when the users run to you crying "help! help!
<br>why is this bit of data not what I expected it to be?" you can dig into<br>object history from a debugzope console and figure what changed it and<br>when. Or restore deleted data, for that matter.<br><br>Marius Gedminas
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