Re: 3 questions...

On 8/7/05, Brian Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I use blocked views, does each sub block constitute a separate file?
No, metakit does all the blocks internally.  The entire file can only
be 2GB total.
 
> I had thought of using two integer columns to represent a decimal. By
> adaptive, do you mean Metakit handles arbitrarily large integers? That
> would be  awesome if it did.

It's the other way around, if your integers only take 4 bits to
represent the largest one, then there are only 4bits in the column
width.

> I can live without unicode for now, but I hope there's plans to include
> it in the future. BSDDB doesn't really support unicode either. Does the
> C interface support it?

The only way I know for doing unicode is
vw2 = st.getas("t[a:b]")
p = u'hi'
vw2.append(a=repr(p))
metakit.dump(vw2)
 a    
 -----
 u'hi'
 -----

unfortunately, you need to evaluate the unicode string on the way out as well.

Brian
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