[Spambayes] Guidance re pickles versus DB for Outlook

[Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions]

11/25/2002 11:35:46 PM, jeremy@alum.mit.edu (Jeremy Hylton) wrote:

>>>>>> "TS" == Tim Stone <- Four Stones Expressions 
<tim@fourstonesExpressions.com>> writes:
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>  TS> Well, I think I'm gonna fool with it, at least from a research
>  TS> perspective.  I think we can overcome the objections raised thus
>  TS> far, and we really do need robustness in the database.  I'm
>  TS> forever having my database corrupted when the pop3proxy does
>  TS> something unexpected, and this is a VERY controlled environment.
>  TS> God knows what the masses will do to this thing...  Double
>  TS> clicking browser buttons, killing processes, etc. etc.  We just
>  TS> gotta not have databases head south.
>
>(I didn't mean to take this conversation off the list.  Did you?

Nope... sorry

>It
>would be helpful for people who want to roll their own DB to think
>about database corruption.)
>
>  TS> The only real impediment I see thus far is that
>  TS> classifier.Classifier implements __getstate__ and __setstate__.
>  TS> I think this is wrong anyhow...
>
>  TS> Anything else that you see?
>
>I've been using the checked in pspam code for weeks now.  So I don't
>think there's any problem with the existing code.  __getstate__ and
>__setstate__ are supported by ZODB, and I've been using the ones
>provided by the default classifier.
>
>Jeremy
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c'est moi - TimS
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