Re: nndb mailing list?

[Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@fuentez.com>]

> "Jason" == Jason L Tibbitts <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:

   Jason> BTW, I hope to have the entire ding mailing list and maybe
   Jason> all of my mailing lists (a total of over 20000 articles) up
   Jason> on an nndb server sometime soon (perhaps over the weekend).
   Jason> I have a few issues with authentication to deal with first
   Jason> but I'm not terribly concerned with security for a first
   Jason> run.  This should exercise things a bit.

Also BTW, we did some more testing on the differences between gdbm and
berkeley db.  Gdbm wins *big* on disk space (like one less digit in
the bytes column), and is not noticeably slower.  It will probably be
the default in 0.8.  We'll also include a script to convert one to the
other.

Does anyone know how to reliably tell what database format a file is
in?  Are there constant magic numbers for gdbm and berkeley db?  Would
it be a good thing for nndb to automatically translate formats for
you, if you start up with a different database type?

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Joe Hildebrand                  Fuentez Systems Concepts
hildjj@fuentez.com              Lead Software Engineer
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