[ZODB-Dev] __del__ with Persistent objects

[Chris Withers]

Stuart Bishop wrote:
> 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).

Hmm... have you looked at Ape?

cheers,

Chris