Re: [open-cobol-list] Team setup

[Alain Lucari]

Salut,

Il semble que tu sois français, 
so, I don't see for what I should broken my head for write in english
 


Le Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:21:41 +0200
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> Hello,
> 
> I read this point in the TODO file :
> 
> 
> ** New backends for INDEXED files
> 
>  - Any alternative to BerkeleyDB?
>  - Use DB (PostgreSQM, MySQL, etc.) as backends
> 
> 
> Actually, I wrote my own implementation of indexed and relative
> files. I used it for 3 years for personnal needs.
> It could deal with big files (20 millions records, and more than 500
> Mo) with good performances. (based on trees and mmap)
> It has some deficiencies and must be improved : keys are single
> fields, delete is not ready, etc .. And surely it has some bugs.
> 
> Do you think it could be an alternative to BerkeleyDB. Is it a good
> idea or not? My opinion is yes but I am partial. And there is still
> a lot of work to make it a solid product. It would be a full job,
> and doing that I could not do another thing. Furthermore the task we
> subscribe is COBOL compilation, not file management.
> 
> Yet, I think that a COBOL compiler should have its own
> implementation for ISAM and should not depend on third products like
> BerkeleyDB. (Althought I am a great fan of it).
> It has to be self-sufficient.
> And DB (MySQL, Postgres, ...) induce constraints and minimum
> administration tasks which I think are not compatible with the
> simple needs of an ISAM tool.
> 
> What is your opinion ?
> 
> Cheers
> Henry
> 
> 
> 
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Alain Lucari (Eurlix)