[ILUG] gdbm, some info please

[Fergal Daly]

At 16:04 22/06/00, michael.conry at ucd.ie wrote:
>Hopefully someone can enlighten me,
>I am looking at gdbm (just experimenting, using it to store some php gathered
>data), and it works fine through php. I was wondering what programs are there
>to manipulate these files (.db) outside of the php environment. makedb will
>make a db file, but not in gdbm format.
>I realise i could write a c,c++, python or whatever program to manipulate
>these using the gdbm libraries, but if there was a quick utility there for 
>some
>experimentation, I would appreciate it.

I think perl, python etc are the only quick utilities for experimentation 
in this case. Gdbm is a very simple, key -> value db, there's not a huge 
amount you can do except switching on stuff like BTREE indexing of keys. I 
think later versions also have transactions too but there is still only 1 
data type - string and no query language, very straightforward,

Fergal