[ZODB-Dev] RFC: External Garbage Collection

[Jim Fulton]

On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Christian Theune wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 17:46 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I've posted a new proposal:
>>
>>   http://wiki.zope.org/ZODB/ExternalGC
>>
>> That addresses multi-database garbage collection and can also be
>> useful in other situations.
>>
>> Comments are welcome.  Absent objections, I may start working on this
>> fairly soon.
>
> +1 as far as I can see.
>
> One little thing: I find the interface a bit of a misnomer as all
> functions are IMHO useful on their own. The fact that you're going to
> instrument them to implement GC might not need to go into that  
> interface
> name.


<shrug>

I'm seriously contemplating a ZODB 4. That might be an opportunity  
collapse a number of the storage interfaces into a new IStorage.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation