[ZODB-Dev] blobs for noobs

[James Bergstra]

I'm surprised by the complete silence... was this post sent to the
wrong list?  What would be a better one?

James

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, James Bergstra
<james.bergstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where can I find information on using BLOBs outside of plone?  I use
> ZODB directly from my python programs and I would like to store large
> files across ZEO.  I'm using a recent ZODB (3.9.3)
>
> - I use runzeo.py to start my server, how do I tell it where on the
> filesystem to put blob data?
>
> - when using blobs across ZEO, where is the blob data stored on the
> client side?  Memory? /tmp? cwd?
>
> - I'm assuming that BLOBs should be manipulated like any other
> persistent object. How true is this?  What exceptions are there?  How
> is blob data cached in the client, specifically is it ever
> automatically flushed? I want to use my BLOB data (read only) after
> closing the db connection.
>
> - where in plone or elsewhere might I find code that would illustrate
> how blobs should be used?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James
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