[ZODB-Dev] Is there an official patch for the problems with packing and data loss?

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 5:42 pm, Chris Withers wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
> > The recently fixed bugs in FileStorage packing have been there a long
> > time, and it's a measure of their infrequency and obscurity that it's
> > taken such a long time for the cause to be found.
>
> Hmmm, I'm not debating the bugs have been there for a long time, but how
> come we've suddenly had a glut of people enbountering them in normal
> operation when they didn't before Zope 2.6.1?

You must have a short memory. I suffered my first mysterious POSKeyError 
within a few weeks of using zope 1-point-something, and have seen a small but 
steady trickle of similar reports ever since.

The rate of releases was faster before 2.6. Maybe that made people more likely 
to be quietly optimistic about unexplained problems.

-- 
Toby Dickenson
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