* Michael Watkins wrote [2005-10-11 14:35:00 -0700]:

> Yet in Postgres (and experience tells me Oracle would have been no different)
> the "solution" was workable enough. Clearly they are doing some things at the
> file IO level that go beyond simply opening up a big file.

as I read what I wrote its probably more likely memory based caching at the
server side that I noted.

Question for the group: what's the largest number of objects you've worked
with using Durus or ZODB?

I smell a diversion coming on...