[ZODB-Dev] packing ZODB

[Adam GROSZER]

Hello,

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:33:30 -0600 you wrote:
>
> On 03/31/2011 05:25 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Adam GROSZER<agroszer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> After investigating FileStorage a bit, I found that GC runs on objects,
>>> but pack later by transactions. That means that if there's a bigger-ish
>>> transaction, we can't get rid of it until all of it's objects are GCed
>>> (or superseeded by newer states).
>>>
>>> Is that correct?
>>
>> I think so.
>
> Actually we can remove pieces of the old transaction and that's the way
> both FileStorage and RelStorage already work. RelStorage owes much of
> its success to simply duplicating the functionality of FileStorage and
> ZEO. ;-)

Yup, checked that and it works... You just got to get rid of all 
references ;-)

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  Adam GROSZER
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