[Tutor] Fwd: Which databases allow lists as record fields?

Chris Fuller cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net
Thu Mar 14 01:35:35 CET 2013


Use pickle to serialize the list, then use any DB that takes strings of 
arbitrary length.  You will probably be frustrated if you seek a (useful) DB 
that has native support for such things.

Cheers

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Dave Angel wrote:
> I presume you meant this for the tutor list.  I don't have any answers
> for the question.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Tutor] Which databases allow lists as record fields?
> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:59:27 +1100
> From: DoanVietTrungAtGmail <doanviettrung at gmail.com>
> To: Dave Angel <davea at davea.name>
> 
> Dear tutors
> 
> To elaborate on my above question, I mean: Which database (which a Python
> program can access) allows a record to have not just simple fields but also
> fields that are variable-length lists?
> 
> For my application, records in one database table might have 1 list, those
> in another have,  say, 4. Each list has a variable number of integers, no
> list contains embedded lists.
> 
> The purpose of asking this question is to know which database to learn.
> 
> Before asking this question, I looked at Alan Gauld's SQLite
> tutorial<http://www.alan-g.me.uk/tutor/tutdbms.htm>and the list
> of data types in W3school's SQL
> tute<http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_datatypes.asp>,
> plus a few Google searches.
> 
> Trung Doan
> 
> 
> 
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