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

Are there any limitations with either the DBM format or with Perl's DBM interfaces as far as size goes?

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Re: dbm
by dws (Chancellor) on Nov 22, 2000 at 11:24 UTC
    The DBM library available on your target system may have record size limits. You may need to run some quick tests to discover them. (I've seen 1K record limits on Windows with ActivePerl 5.003, and limits so big that I didn't care on FreeBSD.)

    Test.

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Re (tilly) 1: dbm
by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 22, 2000 at 17:02 UTC
    There is no single dbm format. It is an interface to a series of libraries, each of which has its own format or formats.

    A reasonable comparison of the common options is available at AnyDBM_File.

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