[ZODB-Dev] Re: BTree corrupted after conflict resolution

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:08:42PM -0500, John Belmonte wrote:
> Casey Duncan wrote:
> >At the very least it should be a great big blinking "Enter at your own
> >risk" sign above the door.
> >
> >As a personal rule I never use anything but simple types in BTree keys,
> >because I know I stand little to no chance of getting it right
> >otherwise. I've used BTrees a lot and frankly I've never had anything
> >but a superficial reason to use persistent objects as BTree keys.
> 
> Note that this issue applies to BTree sets as well.  Is it unreasonable 
> to want a set of first-class persistent objects?

We solved with Connection.add by wrapping a set of OIDs and presenting
it as a set of persistent objects.  In fact Steve invented
Connection.add to solve exactly this problem.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
        Don't worry if it doesn't work right.
        If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
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