[ZODB-Dev] __del__ with Persistent objects

[Stuart Bishop]

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On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 08:49  PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Stuart Bishop wrote:
>> FileStorage is out,
>
> What aspects of FileStorage behavior prevent it being appicable in 
> this case?

The files will often be 20-30MB word documents, print resolution images,
scanned contracts etc., and I need to be able to cope with lots of them.
Each one will be rarely accessed, the application mainly being concerned
with the documents' metadata. Using FileStorage for the metadata and
indexes, and storing blobs externally, seems sane. I don't see a point
in dealing with a 20GB+ Data.fs if I don't have to :-) Added advantages
are being able to trivially recover the documents from backup tapes, and
to archive files no longer referenced in the database to permanent
storage (By moving them to an archive directory when they are no longer
referenced in the ZODB).

- -- 
Stuart Bishop <zen at shangri-la.dropbear.id.au>
http://shangri-la.dropbear.id.au/

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