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Re: is the Peeron Database available?
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Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:02:15 GMT
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In lugnet.db.inv, Dan Boger writes:
In article <yxwpuf3f1hc.fsf@katzenminze.pc-plus.de>, Hakan Tandogan wrote:
I guess the inventories on the peeron site are database
based. Is it possible to (nightly?) export the data and make
it available for automated processing, the way the lugnet set
reference is made available?

actually, the backend is completely custom written by me in perl, so
there's no formal database to export...  maybe one day I'll set up some
sort of export function, that will take all the sets and dump them out
into one big file...

Why not use MySQL for the backend and then you can just export the tables?

KL



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  Re: is the Peeron Database available?
 
(...) two reasons... first, MySQL wasn't installed on the server I set peeron up originally. and second, I need to learn a lot more SQL before I could use it effectivly... yes, it's in my Little Plan (tm), but need to find the time... :) Besides, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
  Re: is the Peeron Database available?
 
(...) Have they added txn support yet? If not, make sure you're single threaded through any parts that modify the DB... ++Lar (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.inv)

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(...) actually, the backend is completely custom written by me in perl, so there's no formal database to export... maybe one day I'll set up some sort of export function, that will take all the sets and dump them out into one big file... (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.inv)

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