[ZODB-Dev] OID length

[Florent Guillaume]

I know this has been raised several times in the past, but I'm not  
sure of all the details...

What layer of ZODB, if any, has a restriction that OIDs be 8-byte  
strings. Is it the persistence module? Or just FileStorage?
Also is there a reason (performance, space?) for this restriction,  
and would anyone be interested in seeing it removed.

I'm asking because I'm planning a pretty complex storage layer, which  
would benefit from more complex OIDs (for instance bigger strings, or  
tuples of (str, int)).

Thanks,

Florent

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