Re: Re: RFC Postal Routing Package - example

From: Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:26:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: RFC Postal Routing Package - example
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Daniel Khan wrote:
It will be tied to sqlite - it is also php5 only. This because the package also handles the import of the data - this are (for germany) ~1 400 000 rows in several tables. I will also provide the shelscript for table creation and the import.
I can see the sense in this when it comes to updating the DB. But what happens if someone wants the DB running on a separate machine? OK, it'll make the whole import/export stuff more complicated, and stuff like soundex isn't available in every DB (it is in MySQL, Postgres AFAIK via a contrib extension). But it seems to me PEAR is all about that kind of flexibility. My €0.02. M

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