[ZODB-Dev] URGENT: ZODB down - Important Software Application at CERN

[Laurence Rowe]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> On May 26, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Pedro Ferreira wrote:

>> In any case, it's not such a surprising number, since we have ~73141
>> event objects and ~344484 contribution objects, plus ~492016  resource
>> objects, and then each one of these may contain authors, and fore sure
>> some associated objects that store different bits of info... So,  
>> even if
>> it doesn't include revisions, 19M is not such a surprising number.
>> I've also tried to run the "analyze.py" script, but it returns me a
>> stream of '''type' object is unsubscriptable" errors, due to:
>>
>> classinfo = pickle.loads(record.data)[0]
>>
>> any suggestion?
> 
> No. Unfortunately, most of the "scripts" in ZODB aren't tested or  
> documented well and tend to bitrot.
> 
>> Also, is there any documentation about the basic structures of the
>> database available? We found some information spread through different
>> sites, but we couldn't find exhaustive documentation for the API
>> (information about the different kinds of persistent classes, etc...).
>> Is there any documentation on this?
> 
> 
> No.  Comprehensive ZODB documentation is needed. This is an upcoming  
> project for me.

I have a patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/223331 which 
fixes this.

Laurence