[Zope3-Users] Re: Splitting ZODB ?

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> First, you usually don't need an independent unique id for an
> object, since direct object references work much better in
> Zope 3 than they do in Zope 2.

Great :-)

> If you do need a separate identifier of some kind, you can
> use a key reference or use an integer id from an intid utlity,
> which simply assigns integers to key references.

What's a "key reference"?

cheers,

Chris

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