[ZODB-Dev] create unique container keys

[Christian Theune]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:19 +0200, Adam GROSZER wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What's a good practice to create unique container keys for a heavily
> loaded application? (I mean lots of writes to the same container)
> Obviously having a counter on the container and incrementing and using
> that for key gives write conflicts.
> 
> What do the experts use?

If uniqueness is your only concern then using a large number range and
consuming numbers randomly will perform better than incrementing.

Christian

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