[Zope] ZODB packing problem

[Michel Pelletier]

How big is your database?  Can you just send it to me as an attachment
or put it somewhere where i can fetch it?

-Michel

George Runyan wrote:
> 
> sorry.. i'm running
> 
> Zope version: Zope 2.1.4 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2)
>      Python version: 1.5.2 (#1, Sep 17 1999, 20:15:36) [GCC egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-
>      System Platform: linux-i386
>      Process ID: 12776 (1026)
>      Running for: 47 min 2 sec
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:56 PM
> To: George Runyan
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] ZODB packing problem
> 
> What version of Zope is this?  A recent bug fix has been checked into
> the pack function and my line numbers don't corespond with yours.  I
> need to know what version of Zope you are using so that I can get the
> right version of this file.
> 
> George Runyan wrote:
> 
> > my ZODB doesnt pack, it remains 50.6M and after this error its still
> usable
> > (thank god).
> 
> Packing does not modify your existing database file until it completely
> succeeds.  During the pack, packed data is written to a temporary file
> and your main file is just read from.
> 
> >  now, is there any documentation on how to fix this?  when I
> > search for 'ZODB' I get a useless 341 items returned.  'ZODB
> > troubleshooting' I get 355 items.
> 
> FYI, you are searching for the union of two search terms, 'ZODB' and
> 'troubleshooting' which is why you got more for the second query than
> for the first.  To explicitly get an intersection, say 'ZODB AND
> troubleshooting'.
> 
> That bring you back a much smaller number (0).
> 
> -Michel