From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-07-30T02:11:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid ODBC!

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 23:06, Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:
> Sean: I like the idea of a seperate component that handles nothing but
> ID generation. Properly done, it could easily extend to other useful
> applications (sessions IDs for non-RDBMS-backed webapps, etc.).
>
> Now the only question is what underlying storage engine to
> use...Berkeley DB? CDB? Flat files? PStore?

I would use a regular old file.  If you have a persistent layer, maintain it 
internally as a native integer and write it out each time it's incremented as 
text.  Re-load the value from the file when the persistent layer first loads.

	Sean O'Dell