Vincent Fourmond
10/26/2006 11:20:00 AM
snacktime wrote:
> I found that when trying to store marshalled data in sdbm, it croaks
> with the message "sdbm_store failed (SDBMError)" when the marshalled
> object contains binary data, such as a compressed file. dbm and gdbm
> work fine, as does berkeleydb.
Quoting from Ruby in a Nutshell, page 152:
SDBM:
Public domain implementation of DMB. HAs the same interface as DBM. Runs
almost anywhere but has inferior performance and data-size limitations
compared to the other DBMs...
Looks like you're hitting those limitations.
Vince
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