[ZODB-Dev] deadlock prevention for ZODB3 / Zope 2.6

[Toby Dickenson]

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 8:30 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> The implementation of deadlock prevention requires changes to the
> storage and transaction data manager APIs.  Each must now implement a
> sortKey() method that returns a string that can be used to sort the
> storages.=20

I just updated to the 2.6 maintenance branch, and started getting these l=
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messages: jar missing sortKey() method: <Products.Tobys.Wierd.Stuff insta=
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at 0x8d0a3bc>

I have a couple of class that hook into to transaction manager API. They =
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obviously affected by this change, although I hadnt realised this before=20
seeing your timely log message.


I guess this change could have turned out quite painful for me, although =
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practice everything went more smoothly than I could have hoped for. Thank=
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Jeremy!