From: Tom Gilbert <tom@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T20:33:01+09:00
Subject: Re: bdb and $=

* Ned Konz (ned@bike-nomad.com) wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2002 12:35 pm, Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> > AFAIK, BDB is case-sensitive.
> 
> More accurately, perhaps, is: keys in BDB are just strings of bytes. 
> If you want to look at them as text, that's fine, but there's no 
> particular reason that BDB itself should.
> 
> If you want case insensitivity, you'll have to provide it.
> 
> It is much more useful to have arbitrary strings of bytes (up to 2Gb 
> long!) as keys than it is to have merely text...

Indeed, I've been using Marshal.dump()'d ruby objects, among other
things :)

The case insensitvity was only needed for one use, and I've already
sorted that by switching to Btree, so I'm all happy now :)

Tom.
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