Draft: add optional script to migrate data to py3
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one approach to convert all object might be to have an external script reading all records from the ZODB and if the pickle data has some python2
STRING, load and save again the object for thisoid. Once this external script does not find anySTRING, it means we no longer needzodbupdate. I guess this could be a way, we can try this.
we already have enable_zodbupdate_load_monkey_patch
, which performs on-the-fly migration. Therefore, this script is optional.
It reads all records from the ZODB, and if the pickle data contains Python 2 strings, it loads and saves the corresponding object for that OID to explicitly migrate it to Python 3.
After running it, all records should be migrated to Python 3, allowing the system to run without enable_zodbupdate_load_monkey_patch