Peter Fein wrote:
> Jesus Cea wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> I don't care.  I should have been clearer about this, but along with the
>  lack of references to other pickles, we don't care about consistency
> across pickles.  Basically, writing each object to disk is effectively
> an independent transaction.

To follow up to myself, these properties hold for web server sessions
Hint, hint...