From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2004-10-18T05:24:26+09:00
Subject: Re: SDBM and Windows

Hal Fulton (hal9000@hypermetrics.com) wrote:
[...]
>  It seems to crash when storing "long" values in the db.
>  The first string it happens with is 2330 chars in length.
>  (As opposed to the average in this db, which is more
>  like 300 bytes.)

As it is, SDBM has an inherent limitation in that it cannot store
key/value pairs with a combined size greater than PAIRMAX (usually 1008)
bytes, a limit that is also normally checked by the ruby module. It is
surprising that it allows you to store as many as 2330 bytes in the
first place; I get an "SDBMError: sdbm_store failed" when I try it.

			Reimer Behrends