[olug] Mapping Perl structures to a SQL table...

[Kevin]

It sound like you're trying to do something similar to what locate(1)
does. Have you thought about investigating that and adapting some of
its techniques and/or co-opting it into doing what you need, such as a
different set of directories on a more frequent basis?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 13:31, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> I'm taking on the task of converting our in-house tool to use the Perl
> DBI module to replace the Data::Dumper/eval() it currently uses to
> store and retrieve data.  Not pretty, but it has worked pretty well
> for the small data sets we've been using.
>
> We now have some people commenting on the speed - some have pages take
> 7+ minutes to bring up waiting for the back-end perl code to ripple
> through the directory structure and eval() the necessary files to
> build the page.  The "eval" function seems to be the bulk of the time
> as I expected...
>
> What I'm looking for is some general comments and discussion about the
> mental task of mapping these hash tables into a SQL table.  I'm not
> really looking for a tool, more a high level discussion about ways to
> store the data and still remain flexible.
>
> Dan
>
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