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

Christian Robottom Reis kiko@async.com.br
Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:36:53 -0300 (BRT)


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John D. Heintz wrote:

> Is export/import the only reason not to use them?

I think Jim wants to imply they're an "implementation detail" [and that
they might "go away" in other versions, too] :)

> Back before I understood BTrees I assumed that the only scalable way to add
> millions of objects that I could then look up by ID was to use the database
> generated IDs.  A little Oracle sequence dain bramage showing though.

But with a BTree you can use your own integers as indexes, so
there's really no point, right?

Take care,
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