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

[Chris Withers]

Laurence Rowe wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Well said. A feature I'd like to add is the ability to have persistent  
>> objects that don't get their own database records, so that you can get  
>> the benefit of having them track their changes without incuring the  
>> expense of a separate database object.
> 
> +lots
> 
> Hanno Schlichting recently posted a nice graph showing the persistent 
> structure of a Plone Page object and it's 9 (!) sub-objects. 
> http://blog.hannosch.eu/2009/05/visualizing-persistent-structure-of.html

That graph isn't quite correct ;-)

workflow_history has DateTime objects in it, and I think they get their 
own pickle.

I had a major win on one CMFWorkflow project by changing the workflow 
implementation to use a better data structure *and* store ints instead 
of DateTime object. CMF should change this...

Chris

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