Database problems

2010-09-06 Thread Edward Grefenstette
Dear Pythonistas, For a project I'm working on, I need to store fairly large dictionaries (several million keys) in some form (obviously not in memory). The obvious course of action was to use a database of some sort. The operation is pretty simple, a function is handed a generator that gives it

Re: Database problems

2010-09-06 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Edward Grefenstette egre...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Pythonistas, For a project I'm working on, I need to store fairly large dictionaries (several million keys) in some form (obviously not in memory). The obvious course of action was to use a database of some

Re: Database problems

2010-09-06 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-09-06, Edward Grefenstette egre...@gmail.com wrote: I then threw caution to the winds and tried simply using cPickle's dump in the hope of obtaining some data persistence, but it crashed fairly early with a IOError: [Errno 122] Disk quota exceeded. The error is telling you that you