[Zope] Re: updating catalog takes forever (never really completes)

[Luca Olivetti]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
> 
>> In indexes, yes, that's not really redundant, is an index after all.
>> But metadata? It seems it is just a workaround to a limitation of the 
>> zodb.
> 
> 
> Urm, no, it is a form of caching.
> 
> Have you heard of apps like Squid, Mozilla, Internet Explorer ? ;-)

Yes, caching is a workaround for dealing with slow backends, with the 
risk of getting stale data.
If the backend is fast enough there should be no need for caching (and 
for duplicating the same data again and again).


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