[ZODB-Dev] Re: Getting all OIDs from a storage.

[Florent Guillaume]

Christian Theune wrote:
> we are using Zope 3 generations to update ZODBs. Sometimes the default
> tools that traverse the object tree are not covering all bases.
> 
> I opened access to the FileStorage index of OIDs so we can iterate over
> those. (We are ignoring exceptions about POSKeyErrors at one point
> because we are likely doing something wrong there.)
> 
> As the actual code is in an internal repository I have attached the
> relevant code in this mail to let you get an impression on this.
> 
> However, this is not compatible to ZEO installations. Do you think it
> would be useful to implement a way of iterating over all objects on any
> storage?

Yes, such an API to iterate over all storage objects has been talked about 
several times before, but never implemented.

It would be quite useful.

Florent

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