sdbm size limit

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

The db comparison chart (in the AnyDBM module description of PERL's documentation) shows that the size limit for a key/value pair is ~1KB. It also notes that this can be changed. 'How and where' is my question. I've got a web project near completion and it is late in the game to break my tied hashes up into smaller chunks. All except a couple of excessive "records" fall under the limit.

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Re: sdbm size limit by perrin (Chancellor) on Aug 25, 2004 at 23:13 UTC
The README in with the C stuff in SDBM_File explains how to do it. It would be much easier to just use a dbm without limits, like DB_File or GDBM_File.	[reply]
Re: sdbm size limit by eserte (Deacon) on Aug 26, 2004 at 17:34 UTC
Check MLDBM::Sync::SDBM_File which, according to the docs, "works around this 1024 byte limit".	[reply]

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