I am keeping away from databased solutions for now for a couple reasons: space (current report is over 100 million records); speed (I've had bad luck with db stuff slowing me down because of the added overhead that I don't really need); compatibility (eventually I want to have at least some of this be C, for increased performance, which makes DBM::Deep a bad choice); brevity (for the moment I am changing as little as I can to get this out quickly, we have a client waiting, more changes mean more possible points of failure without extra testing)

In the future I may look into some improvements, for now I want it to work. (not to mention its driving me nuts not knowing what is screwed up :)

                - Ant
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In reply to Re^2: Solution, it seems. by suaveant
in thread What the flock!? Concurrency issues in file writing. by suaveant

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