[Zope] subtransactions

[Chris McDonough]

This is about right.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com>
Cc: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>; "Ian Sealy"
<Ian.Sealy@bristol.ac.uk>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] subtransactions


> Chris McDonough writes:
>  > Currently, yes.  This is arguably wrong.
> Can you tell us, what the semantics of subtransactions is?
>
> It has been my impression that subtransactions are a kludge,
> essentially implemented for ZCatalog, to reduce the amount
> of main memory for large transactions.
> Rather than keep all modified objects in memory,
> they are flushed onto a file to be copied from there
> when the transaction is finally commited.
>
> If this is the case, then objects that do not need
> such hackery, simply provide empty "commit_sub" and
> "abort_sub" and do all their work in "commit".
>
> Dieter
>  >
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
>  > To: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com>
>  > Cc: "Ian Sealy" <Ian.Sealy@bristol.ac.uk>; <zope@zope.org>
>  > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:35 AM
>  > Subject: Re: [Zope] subtransactions
>  >
>  >
>  > > Chris McDonough wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > Because most databases don't have the notion of a subtransaction.
>  > >
>  > > Hang on... how come, if a file upload needs to commit a
subtransaction,
>  > that
>  > > means that an SQL method you call while processing the same request
also
>  > needs
>  > > to support sub-transactions?
>  > >
>  > > confusedly,
>  > >
>  > > Chris
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>
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