Re: CVS update: phpdoc/functions

From: Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: Re: CVS update: phpdoc/functions
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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: > man gdbm > > NOTICE: The size in gdbm is not restricted like dbm or > ndbm. Your data can be as large as you want. > > The sendmail book, 2nd revision, page 648: > > The dbm class, which is really the ndbm form of database, is > the traditional form of UNIX database. [...] The data must > fit in blocks of fixed sizes, so there is usually a limit of > the maximum size (1 kilobyte or so) on any given stored > datum. > > [...] Because of the limit on the size of a datum, you should > consider using one of the db(3) hash or btree classes > instead. Is there a posibility to make for the two DB2's (Sleepycat and IBM) separat functions, instead of frowing all of them (not IBM DB2 of course) in dba_* or dbm_*? -Egon

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