[Zope-dev] 27 million objects.

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:10:08 -0700


> Andy McKay wrote:
> >
> > Any cataloguing and un-cataloguing of an object is expensive, c'mon you
are
> > changing all the indices, vocabulary and so on. You never notice it
normally
> > for 1 - 10 things, but run an import script of 10000 and catalog each
object
> > as it gets added (rather than all of them at the end) and you'll notice
the
> > difference. (This script was cataloguing 250,000 mail messages, one at a
> > time. Big no-no)
>
> Perhaps I expressed myself poorly.

Yeah I think me and Chris have wandered off the point. Since my experience
with a large catalog was a year ago I will shut up until I have something
valuable to add :)

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.