On 19 Jun 2003 03:31:16 -0500, Tim Legant
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A final note: I made a deliberate decision to pull the list of
> addresses (black or white or whatever) back from the database into
> TMDA.  This allows us to use the documented wildcard support that TMDA
> provides, which is not provided by any database.  Regular expressions
> were a possibility, but the problem is that the syntax for using them
> is different across databases; e.g MySQL uses "RLIKE", PostgreSQL uses
> "~", etc.

<advocate type=devil>

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using a database?  One of the biggest
advantages an SQL has over a flat file in this case is speed.  Pulling
the entire database into Python negates this.

</advocate>

Gre7g.
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