[Zope] Structure for large schema

[Andreas Jung]

--On 17. April 2006 14:42:24 -0300 David Pratt <fairwinds at eastlink.ca> 
wrote:

> Hi Andreas. Yes, I have been thinking what type of object would be best.
> I was also thinking about putting whole zodb into rdb with something like
> PGStorage because my feeling is if I work with zodb strictly, it may bulk
> quickly. I guess this is another way of dealing with pickles which I have
> been contemplating but in a way that does not change the utility of
> objects in Zope. For my knowledge, how exactly are empty attributes dealt
> with in BTree so that if say 40 of 70 attributes are empty that it is
> handling this efficiently?
>
>

I don't know much about BTRee internals but all indexes use large and
sometimes complex BTree structures. Also nested BTrees aren't are problem.
I would say: 40-70 is nothing I would get bad sleep from.

-aj

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