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| DATE | 2020-12-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] CFP NY.PM Technical Meetup
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On 12/23/20 10:18 PM, Jacob Salomon wrote:
>
> Another question that has bothered me is how to access binary data
> within a buffer. For example, a data page in a database like Informix
> or Oracle has a section of header information - a structure with binary
> data and bit flags - and a set of pointers to individual rows within the
> page. Fairly easy in C but how to access all that in Perl and leave it
> binary? I think PDL is another class (using the term loosely; not as an
> OO construct) of such access methods within binary data.
That is an entirely different problem and that API is accessable because
those databases make it so. Oracle drives me crazy with that complexity
and it doesn't speed things up. The database engine is the database
engine. The C APIs for Oracle and Informeix is, in theory at least,
wholely available to Perl through DBI assuming someone wrote the
interface into the perl specific DBD. It it is available in C, it is at
least in theory available in Perl.
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