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Peter Fein wrote:
> The benefit is that each pickle represents a complete, high
> level standalone object. Fortunately, we're able to generate unique
> filenames.

That approach is simple but if your machine crashes, you are in big trouble.

Suppose this case:

1. You update several objects in a transaction.
2. Your code starts to dump the new objects to disk. Hopefully you save
the objects using other names, "fsync", and then rename the objects.
You'd better do :-p
3. Your machine crashes, power failure, whatever.
4. Now some of your changes are lost. I can ever have a dangled
reference to unexistent objects.

> The upshot is, this is sufficient for our problem. It'd be nice to use
> the durus interface with this sort of backend...  A SMOP, I'm sure. ;)

Ideally the backend interface should be documented, to easily use
multiple "plug-ins" :-p

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