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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Berkeley DB bindings
Date: 11 Feb 2003 20:19:25 +0000
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Karel Miklav <karel@inetis.spppambait.com> writes:

> I'm experimenting with low-level databases; I just need basic
> functionality. And if there are other ways like Booch components +
> serialization + Ada95 features, that would be OK too.

The BCs support the Ada stream attributes, but (so far as I know, but
people might not have told me!) no one has used them like this. Not to
say it couldn't work!

The scheme would have to be

   read data from file
   ...
   manipulate data
   ...
   write data to file

(ie, all the manipulations are in-memory, no transfers to file).