On 12/8/06, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when SA was first released, someone immediately suggested that the
> identity map of Session be weak referencing, which appeared to be an
> obvious improvement, so that you could load as many objects as you want
> from the session and whatever you didnt use would just go away.  but
> now it appears that the more intuitive operation for a Session is that
> things that get loaded into it, stay there, until you say otherwise.
>
> So id like to make the session act this way, again like
> hibernate's...more explicit.  what you load into the session stays
> there until you clean it out.  that behavior is more predictable than
> what we have now.

+1

> Of course we can always add an option "weak_identity_map" if people
> really do want the old behavior.

-1, it's only a matter of time before this would bite you

-- 
Jonathan Ellis
http://spyced.blogspot.com

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