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.
