[ZODB-Dev] 8-byte oids

[Shane Hathaway]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> IPersistent specifies OIDs to be non-empty strings and reserves the
> 8-byte OID consisting of 8 null characters.  Lots of ZODB
> infrastructure assumes that oids are 8 bytes.  I'm tempted to say that
> oids must be 8-byte strings.

+1.  The simplified standard promotes interoperability.

> Does anyone see a problem with this?

I don't anymore.

Shane