[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] No beta2 tonight

[Josiah Carlson]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>>
>> It's entirely possible that I know very little about what was being
>> made available via the bsddb module, but to match the API of what is
>> included in the documentation (plus the dictionary interface that it
>> supports) shouldn't be terribly difficult.
>
> Maybe for new databases, but what about people with
> existing bsddb files that they need to read?

Classic data transition issue.  Dump the data with the old software,
reload the data with the new software.  Both bsddb and sqlite are
pretty fast, the latter of which has nice bulk inserts, after-the-fact
index creation, ..., which can reduce the time it takes to do the
transition.

 - Josiah