I subscribe to most of your comments.

I value freedom of software more than you can imagine. I supply patches for fixes or new features for many OpenSource projects I use in daily life. Today I enhanced Claws-Mail. Awaiting further discussion two of their main committers liked the patch and even want to change the default to the new behavior (still being able to use the old behavior).

Maybe that is also what I like so much in our beloved Perl community. CPAN motivates users to give valuable feedback. Either by patches, bug reports or comments.

I find myself using MySQL with more and more reluction over the years. The problem is that none of my annoyences are gone with new releases.

I have to use Oracle and Unify because of our customers, but I keep wondering how Oracle can get away with bad NULL/Empty-string handling in varchar. By now "backward compatibility" is no valid excuse anymore.

I have close to no grunts with Postgres. What I remember is that select * from foo; where foo has millions of records, wil build the complete list as result set before it returns the first record. That may take long. Now that my postgres servers are fast and have lots of RAM, it is no real concern to me, but I hate having to use LIMIT in a loop to get smaller sets. Things might have changed since then and I am quite happy with postgres 9.3.5

Unify is great for BLOB handling. it is completely transparent and has no limits, unlike that sucking 4k limit in Oracle.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re^5: Need DBM file that holds data up to 50,000 bytes by Tux
in thread Need DBM file that holds data up to 50,000 bytes by bulrush

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