[ZODB-Dev] Packless and copyTransactionsFrom()????

[Jim Fulton]

Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> > > How do I do it while keeping the oids the same?  For better or worse we are
> > > using the generated _p_oid like the primary key in RDMS-land.
> >
> > Bad bad bad. :)
> 
> Bad as in "Don't do it if you still have a choice?" We've chosen to use an
> independent OID that we autogenerate, but I guess _p_oid's uniqueness is
> convenient.

But persistent ids don't survive export and import. 
They should not be used as if they were meaningful,
at the application level.

Jim

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