Re: Implemented idea, feedback needed/welcome

2010/8/4 H.Merijn Brand <[email protected]>:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~hmbrand/TD.tgz
>
>    use DBI;
>    use Tie::DBD;
>
>    my $dbh = DBI->connect ("dbi:Pg:", ...);
>
>    tie my %hash, "Tie::DBD", $dbh;
>    tie my %hash, "Tie::DBD", $dbh, "foo";
>
>    $hash{key} = $value;  # INSERT
>    $hash{key} = 3;       # UPDATE
>    delete $hash{key};    # DELETE
>    $value = $hash{key};  # SELECT
>
> Please edit t/10_hash.t to do what you need to do to connect to Postgres
> or Oracle. Support for MySQL, CSV, SQLite etc for later
>
> The reasoning behind this is that I have a small machine that connects
> to a database and does a lot of calculations. To `cache' calculated
> results, it uses a hash, which has outgrown the available memory space,
> so I tied that with "DB_File" to disk. The system however didn't give
> me enough space to store that, and the database server is huge and fast

Hi Merijn,

how does your module differ from Tie::DBI
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-DBI/)?
Or is it just a try to have a new start, because of the inactivity at Tie::DBI?

Jens