FYI. I have written a Crystal language wrapper for LMDB. It's here https://github.com/timuckun/crystal-liblmdb
Hope it's of some use to somebody. On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Ulrich Windl < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I think you are free to implement your data dictionary any complex data > structures using LMDB ;-) > > Ulrich > > >>> Tim Uckun <[email protected]> schrieb am 02.12.2016 um 12:26 in > Nachricht > <caguhjrm2wzt1jzhcqecodvfc699vgrqsmyzr1njr0xuuxcs...@mail.gmail.com>: > > I am writing a wrapper for liblmdb and one thing I was able to do was to > > store simple integers and floats as the value into the database. This > > seems to work pretty well but I am wondering if this is somehow against > > best practice. > > > > One bad thing about this is that when you are doing a seek or a cursor > > operation the code does not know what kind of data is at the record. I > have > > some routines to cast them back from the pointers but the user has to > know > > what to cast them to. It would be very handy if the MDB_val struct had a > > field for metadata, even if it just a byte. > > > > Anyway I am wondering how much trouble I am getting myself with this > > practice. > > > > Thanks. > > > > >
