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. _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
