[ZODB-Dev] Invalidations

[Shane Hathaway]

Tim Peters wrote:
> Jim Fulton]
>>We should probably think harder about the semantics of sync. But it
>>implied a transaction boundary -- specifically, an abort. You wouldn't
>>want this to happen automatically.
> 
> 
> I assume Rajeev doesn't really want to call sync() automatically, because
> that's never what anyone asking that question really wants.  What they
> invariably _want_ is for ZEO to process invalidations by magic, and they've
> been calling sync() manually as a way to get that to happen.

Would it be sensible for ZODB to do the equivalent of sync() when users
call transaction.begin()?  That's what I tend to expect it to do
anyway--it takes some effort to remember that it doesn't.

Shane