Glossary
- data manager
- The
transaction package wraps data managers implemented for
different transactional backends, such as SQLAlchemy
(zope.sqlalchemy), but also many others.
- Pyramid
- A web framework.
- retryable
- A retryable exception is any exception that is recognized as retryable
by an active data manager. These errors usually inherit from
transaction.interfaces.TransientError. These errors are temporary
and thus marked as retryable. For example, a serialization error in a
database resulting from concurrent transactions.
- transaction
- A database transaction comprises a unit of work performed within a
database management system. In the context of the Pyramid documentation,
“transaction” is also the name of a Python package used by
pyramid_tm.
