postgres/perl, autocommit and BEGIN; COMMIT;

[Fraser Campbell]

On Sunday 30 May 2004 20:22, Madison Kelly wrote:

> I started off recording partition information to raw text files and it
> was a nightmare keeping it straight. Switching to a database cut the
> number of line in half and made the program a lot more reliable. I am

To get database like features (i.e. SQL) there's always sqlite, I expect you 
would have to make very few changes to your scripts to make it use sqllite 
backend.  sqlite just stores your data in a file (not plain text mind you).

As long as you don't use non-portable database features you should be able to 
switch from pgsql to mysql to sqlite to whatever fairly easily down the road.
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