From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T23:09:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28219] Re: DBI and large result sets



ts wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "A" == Albert L Wagner <alwagner@uark.edu> writes:
> 
> A> `load': marshal data too short (ArgumentError)
> 
>  You see this message when the db file was not created with 'marshal' =>
>  true.
> 
>  You must first create it with 'marshal' => true then always open it with
>  this argument.

Ah, hah.  That's what I'm doing wrong.  The files must be
_created_ with marshal.
Thanks a million, guy.  The code sure looks cleaner this way.

> 
> A> However, explicit Marshal works fine.  Is this a feature that
> A> requires a different bdb than what I have?:  bdb 0.2.5 and Ruby
> A> 1.6.5
> 
>  It's best to use bdb-0.2.7 because it correct a stupig bug that I've
>  introduced in 0.2.6 and it has the interface for the new version of
>  Berkeley DB (4.0.14)
> 
> Guy Decoux

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