[ZODB-Dev] More ZODB POSKeyErrors with 2.6.0

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:25:48 +0000


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Could the index file have been for a different version of the
> database???  E.g. what would happen if the database is updated for a
> while, and then the storage server is killed with SIGKILL so the index
> is not rewritten?  On storage server restart, an old version of the
> index will be found and used, right?  Could that scenario cause this
> effect?

Would this be happening a lot more often if this was the case?

> but not followed by a traceback?  We've seen this a few times at a
> customer site.  

Ah good, it's not just me then :-)

What's the fix?

cheers,

Chris