> If you want to use multiple processes (as SCGI does) then you need to
> have some way of sharing session information between processes.  We use
> ZODB and it makes the problem trivial.  You could use some other
> database or roll your own solution.

Seeing as I use postgres for the rest of my application, it is
probably most sensible to implement a session manager that stores
sessions in a postgresql database. I considered this, pickling the
sessions, but first checked to see if I couldn't get away with not
doing this work.

There is of course DirMapping. The only filesystem on my webserver
using reiserfs is /tmp, so if I can figure out "secure tempdir
creation", maybe I should use DirMapping in /tmp? I also looked at
shelve, thought that's the way to go, except that merely doing:

(WebsitePublisher.__init__)
        sessionmapping = shelve.open('/var/www-data/quixote-sessions')
        kwargs['session_mgr'] = SessionManager(WebsiteSession,
                                               sessionmapping)

doesn't work - the data never gets flushed to disk. I create at least
one session then open the file with shelve in an interactive
interpreter, it contains no keys... (I derive from SessionPublisher,
since I use scgi, and I can't easily pass parameters to the
publisher.)

So is DirMapping with reiserfs the simplest, and not too much worse
than, the best solution?

Thanks,
Hugo van der Merwe
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