[ZODB-Dev] Re: Ruby/Smalltalk OODB

[Sean Allen]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Benji York wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Benji York wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gary Poster <gary at zope.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What you *can't* do out of the box is ask "hey, what products  
>>>> have an
>>>> attribute that points to this brand?".  That's a back-reference,  
>>>> and that
>>>> needs solutions like the ones to which I was referring.
>>>
>>> In other words: if you want an index of references (or any  
>>> attribute for
>>> that matter), you have to set it up (just as you would for a RDBMS).
>>
>> but i could just loop over all the products checking the brand.
>
> You could...
>
>> and if that statement doesnt set off alarm bells then i feel  
>> comfortable in
>> my understanding
>
> ...but you'd kill kittens, er no, you'd take an inordinate amount of  
> time
> to find things.  That's what indexes are for, after all.

unless it was a rather limited list of items...

>
>
>> if not how i managed to
>>
>> 1. misinterpret something and
>> 2. how i managed to write code that actually supported that
>> misinterpretation.
>
> I can't tell from here. ;)

neither can i til i dig up the code.