[Metakit] 3 questions...

[Brian Myers]

Yeah, I checked pytables out and it really is a good solution, but the 
parts I don't like are the complexity of the install, and no explicit 
division of memory and disk based files. The latter is not so 
important, but the former is a problem.

As far as mapping to SQL, I handle all the type conversion since I'm 
making database tables and flat files transparent. I would only be 
using a small subset of the functionality in pytables, which is OK, but 
I've done the install on Windows and it's really difficult because of 
all the dependencies. It would be easier on Unix though.

I don't know, I'll have to think about it some more. I sure wish there 
were better object serialization solutions for Python. Actually I wish 
Metakit just supported large files on 32 bit platforms. There simply 
aren't enough 64 bit platform to justify requiring users to use one if 
they have large tables.

Brian

On Aug 9, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Brian Kelley wrote:

> The file size limit is dependent on your OS.  If you have a 64 bit
> system, then you have more than 2GB files.
>
> You might want to take a look at pytables which is very metakit-like
> in some respects
>
> http://pytables.sourceforge.net/html/WelcomePage.html
>
> I'm not sure how well it maps to sql though.
>
> Brian
>
> On 8/9/05, Brian Myers <tarkawebfoot at charter.net> wrote:
>> Crap, well, it looks like unicode might be more accessible in Metakit,
>> but because of the 2GB file limit, I'd better stick with BSDDB. I can
>> handle decimals in the same way in both as well.
>>
>> Thanks for the input. Are there plans to increase the file size limit
>> soon?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Aug 8, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Brian Kelley wrote:
>>
>>> The metakit wrappers were created far before python supported 
>>> unicode.
>>>  I don't think that having 'b' store unicode would be that difficult
>>> to implement.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
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