[Metakit] 3 questions...

[Brian Kelley]

1) On 32 bit systems, the file size limit is 2GB.  It is more on
64bit.  If you are using large tables, use blocked tables otherwise
you will die a slow horrible death.  If you have indexed keys use
blocked, ordered tables.

_vw = st.getas("blocked[_B[id:I,data:S]]")
st = _vw.blocked()#.ordered() if an ordered table

2) decimal types

No, metakit doesn't have support for decimal types, I have had some
sucess using two integer columns though to represent decimal numbers. 
Sorting requires a sort on two columns for instance.

Since metakit's integers are adaptive, this doesn't take up any extra space.

The python interface at least doesn't support unicode verty well.

Hope this helps.

Brian