A couple of quick thoughts on your problem:
1) Are you wrapping the critical sections of your code in with-
transaction? This causes all database pages you touch to be cached
within the body of the transaction. This avoids all 'sync' operations
and transaction setup/teardown caused by a rea
Yes, the standard object slots are 'transient' by default. Any
subclass which is persistent inherits the transient semantics so what
you are seeing is the right default behavior. The only way to make
them persistent is to shadow the old definition with a new persistent
definition in the s
I have two classes, one an "ephemeral" and one persistent. The persistent
class inherits from the ephemeral class. When I copy slot values from an
ephemeral instance to persistent instance, only the slots that are redefined
in the persistent class get persisted properly, the other inherited slot
