[ZODB-Dev] Re: Cleaning up storage interfaces

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> Christian Theune wrote:
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>> Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 13:16 -0400 schrieb Jim Fulton:
>>> I'm finally trying to clean up the storage interfaces.  I have a
>>> question.  I'll probably have more later, but I'm going to deal with
>>> them one by one rather than trying to save them up.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if getSerial is used for anything?  I suspect that
>>> it is an old name for getTid and would like to remove it in favor of
>>> getTid.
>>>
>>> In particular, it's plumbed through the storage and client servers,
>>> but I can't see any evidence that people are using it.
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>> Hmm. Looks like it. getTid looks like it's used from ZEO in the
>> verify() method. I didn't find any place where getSerial was used.
>> Zope 3 uses neither (and it probably shouldn't anyway.)
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> DirectoryStorage[1] is probably the major "out-of-tree" storage
> implementation to check;  PGStorage[2] is likel a distant second in
> terms of usage:
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> [1] http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/
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> [2] http://hathawaymix.org/Software/PGStorage/

I hope very much that Toby and Shane are paying attention to this  
effort or at least pay attention to the alpha release. :)

Jim

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