[pybsddb] Bulk Data load into a DB

[Jesus Cea]

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On 03/26/2010 11:38 PM, Joepaul Puthenangadi wrote:
> Was reading through the documentation and found something on the oracle
> website about the possibility of loading bulk key and values into a hash
> or btree db using the flag = |DB_MULTIPLE. Not trying to be picky or
> anything just wanted to know whether that is something yet to be
> implemented to |bsddb3 module.?

pybsddb is fairly incomplete, yet. It is a work in progress.

DB_MULTIPLE is not supported, currently. In fact using it will crash the
application, corrupt memory, etc.

I will support "bulk" interface sooner or later, depending of "popular
demand" :). Are you demanding it? :))

The details are tricky because I want to support arbitrary iterators,
and I don't want to iterate twice over the data. And I need to iterate
twice to know the lenght of the data and allocate appropiate memory
size, trying to avoid "realloc()'s" in the process.

I have had this interface in mind for years. Implementation will be
"faster" if somebody demands it. I don't have personal need for it.

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