[ZODB-Dev] Perennity of ZODB format

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:54:23PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Pierre-Yves Delens wrote at 2004-9-24 08:51 +0200:
> > ...
> >> Q.1 Do you have docs about the ZODB datas-format :
> 
> The ZODB stores Python objects as (Python) pickles.

Isn't that up to the storage?
Sure, most of the storages in use (FileStorage, DirectoryStorage)
use pickles but that's not mandatory - see APE.
Or maybe I misunderstood and the data first gets pickled before
APE decides what to do with it? That seems wasteful. <shrug>

More to the point, the ZODB serialization format is typically something
that the user doesn't care about at all.  Objects go in, 
objects come out, it "just works".

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