Hey Monks,

I know, I know, this may not be 100% Perl related, but Im doing this in Perl though :) ...

Anyway, I have this db where I save files. That is, things like attributes, size, time and such. At the moment I have the "full path" as key (that is, c:/directory/directory2/file.ext). Now, this is natrually best, since its unique per file. However, it feels to me that this aint the best key to use. (specially if the path is long). So, I was wondering what you guys here had to say about this. Maybe it would be faster (and better) using something like, say, a hash made of the full path and that saved and used in db as key instead?

I need ofcource the full path there somehow, so I can find the file if needed...

Also, key should be VARCHAR and not TEXT?

Thanks,
Ace

In reply to Key to use for files in db! by Ace128

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