[ZODB-Dev] ZODB and ORBit-Python problems

Christian Robottom Reis kiko@async.com.br
Tue, 22 May 2001 13:13:15 -0300 (BRT)


On Tue, 22 May 2001, Andrew Kuchling wrote:

> I'm growing to think that a query language isn't really necessary,
> except for tick-list completeness.  It would be different if this was
> a Java or C++ database; where even simple tasks require a lot of code,
> a query language can be a big timesaver.  But in Python, the
> implementation is a lot more straightforward, so a special query
> language doesn't buy you as much.

I would tend to agree, but the problem remains of searching for objects in
the storage by attribute values; AFAICS we still have to load and check;
the QL associated with structured storage could make this much faster. But
it's a performance issue, perhaps.

Take care,
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