Using TDB for glib/gobject applications

[simo]

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:42 -0700, Christian Hergert wrote:
> I'm getting ready to start attacking indexes as well.  Has anyone
> thought about that, or does something exist already?
> 
> For example, if I'm serializing a GObject (essentially key/value pairs
> in storage) I'd like to index on a given property.  Right now, the only
> option that comes to mind is a secondary TDB instance that contains the
> index value as key and potentially multiple values for the data (which
> are really pointers back to keys in the primary TDB instance).  This,
> unfortunately, complicates the transaction system further since it would
> require transactions to span multiple physical files.

If you are interested in a more complex scheme based on TDB you may want
to take a look at LDB.

Simo.

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