[ZODB-Dev] 8-byte oids

[Christian Theune]

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On 08/14/2009 08:36 AM, Christian Theune wrote:
> On 08/13/2009 10:42 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The difference to the spec before would be that previously strings with
> less than 8 bytes were allowed?

Never mind, reading one of your mails in the other thread actually
cleared this up.

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