mldbm file size limit?

jling has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I'm using MLDBM module to store/update data and seemed to be running into file size limit problem. Inserts do fine up to certain point. Has anyone had problems like this? Thanks

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Re: mldbm file size limit? by diotalevi (Canon) on May 24, 2004 at 23:36 UTC
MLDBM has no size limitation that I am aware of. Perhaps your underlying database does.	[reply]
Re: mldbm file size limit? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on May 25, 2004 at 13:08 UTC
jling, By default, MLDBM uses SDBM which has the following warning from TFM: There are a number of limits on the size of the data that you can store in the SDBM file. The most important is that the length of a key, plus the length of its associated value, may not exceed 1008 bytes. You will need to give a snippet of code that demonstrates the problem if you are not using the defaults so that we can investigate further. Cheers - L~R	[reply]