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Kirill Smelkov authored
For wendelin.core v2 we need a way to know at which particular database state application-level ZODB connection is viewing the database. Knowing that state, WCFS client library will interact with WCFS filesystem server and, in simple terms, request the server to provide data as of that particular database state. Contrary to ZODB/go[1] ZODB/py does not provide the functionality to obtain DB state of connection view, so we have to build it ourselves. Let us call the function that for a client ZODB connection returns database state corresponding to its database view as zconn_at. It is relatively easy to implement zconn_at for ZODB5, since ZODB5 adopted MVCC uniformly and this patch does just that. However even with ZODB5 currently all released ZODB5 versions have race in Connection.open() vs invalidations[2], and so the first ZODB5 release with which zconn_at implemented here will work reliable should be upcoming ZODB 5.5.2 It is TODO to implement zconn_at for ZODB4 and ZODB3, which organize things differently. Please note what would happen if zconn_at gives, even a bit, incorrect answer: wcfs client will ask wcfs server to provide array data as of different database state compared to current on-client ZODB connection. This will result in that data accessed via ZBigArray will _not_ correspond to all other data accessed via regular ZODB mechanism. It is, in other words, would be a data corruptions. [1] https://godoc.org/lab.nexedi.com/kirr/neo/go/zodb#Connection [2] https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/290
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