[ZODB-Dev] Utility to strip version records from storages

[Christian Theune]

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On 08/14/2009 09:23 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> I'm working on a utility to strip version records from storages.  I
> plan to release it in a "bug fix" 3.8 release, probably 3.8.3.
> 
> It will have some limitations:
> 
> - It will only convert storages that have an iterator method.  I
> suspect that FileStorages are the only storages that have iterator
> methods in 3.8 and sooner. (Maybe RelStorages do too.)
> 
> - It won't give blob records any special treatment.  I think it's very
> unlikely that there will be databases that have both version record
> and blobs.  In any case, it should be possible to copy a blob
> directory separately after copying the database records.  If someone
> was insane enough to have blobs in versions, then the database records
> will be stripped but the associated blob files will be left.  This is
> so unlikely that I don't intend to spend time dealing with this
> possibility.

Hmm. I guess that those would vanish automatically after packing that
database...


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