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DBD::DBM - a DBI driver for DBM & MLDBM files
use DBI;
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:'); # defaults to SDBM_File
$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:DBM(RaiseError=1):'); # defaults to SDBM_File
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:type=GDBM_File'); # defaults to GDBM_File
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:mldbm=Storable'); # MLDBM with SDBM_File
# and Storable
or
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:', undef, undef);
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:', undef, undef, { dbm_type => 'ODBM_File' });
and other variations on connect() as shown in the DBI docs and with the dbm_ attributes shown below
... and then use standard DBI prepare, execute, fetch, placeholders, etc., see ``QUICK START'' for an example
The module uses a DBM file storage layer. DBM file storage is common on many platforms and files can be created with it in many languges. That means that, in addition to creating files with DBI/SQL, you can also use DBI/SQL to access and modify files created by other DBM modules and programs. You can also use those programs to access files created with DBD::DBM.
DBM files are stored in binary format optimized for quick retrieval when using a key field. That optimization can be used advantageously to make DBD::DBM SQL operations that use key fields very fast. There are several different ``flavors'' of DBM - different storage formats supported by different sorts of perl modules such as SDBM_File and MLDBM. This module supports all of the flavors that perl supports and, when used with MLDBM, supports tables with any number of columns and insertion of Perl objects into tables.
DBD::DBM has been tested with the following DBM types: SDBM_File, NDBM_File, ODBM_File, GDBM_File, DB_File, BerekeleyDB. Each type was tested both with and without MLDBM.
You should be aware that there are several options for the SQL engine underlying DBD::DBM, see ``Supported SQL syntax''. There are also many options for DBM support, see especially the section on ``Adding multi-column support with MLDBM''.
But here's a sample to get you started.
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:');
$dbh->{RaiseError} = 1;
for my $sql( split /;\n+/,"
CREATE TABLE user ( user_name TEXT, phone TEXT );
INSERT INTO user VALUES ('Fred Bloggs','233-7777');
INSERT INTO user VALUES ('Sanjay Patel','777-3333');
INSERT INTO user VALUES ('Junk','xxx-xxxx');
DELETE FROM user WHERE user_name = 'Junk';
UPDATE user SET phone = '999-4444' WHERE user_name = 'Sanjay Patel';
SELECT * FROM user
"){
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute;
$sth->dump_results if $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS};
}
$dbh->disconnect;
However, I am not aware (and therefore DBD::DBM is not aware) of all possible extensions for various DBM types. If your DBM type uses an extension other than .pag and .dir, you should set the dbm_ext attribute to the extension. And you should write me with the name of the implementation and extension so I can add it to DBD::DBM! Thanks in advance for that :-).
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:ext=.db'); # .db extension is used
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:ext='); # no extension is used
or
$dbh->{dbm_ext}='.db'; # global setting
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{'qux'}->{ext}='.db'; # setting for table 'qux'
By default files are assumed to be in the current working directory. To have the module look in a different directory, specify the f_dir attribute in either the connect string or by setting the database handle attribute.
For example, this will look for the file /foo/bar/fruit (or /foo/bar/fruit.pag for DBM types that use that extension)
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:f_dir=/foo/bar');
my $ary = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(q{ SELECT * FROM fruit });
And this will too:
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:');
$dbh->{f_dir} = '/foo/bar';
my $ary = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(q{ SELECT x FROM fruit });
You can also use delimited identifiers to specify paths directly in SQL statements. This looks in the same place as the two examples above but without setting f_dir:
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:');
my $ary = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(q{
SELECT x FROM "/foo/bar/fruit"
});
If you have SQL::Statement installed, you can use table aliases:
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:');
my $ary = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(q{
SELECT f.x FROM "/foo/bar/fruit" AS f
});
See the ``GOTCHAS AND WARNINGS'' for using DROP on tables.
Since the locking depends on flock(), it only works on operating systems that support flock(). In cases where flock() is not implemented, DBD::DBM will not complain, it will simply behave as if the flock() had occurred although no actual locking will happen. Read the documentation for flock() if you need to understand this.
Even on those systems that do support flock(), the locking is only advisory - as is allways the case with flock(). This means that if some other program tries to access the table while DBD::DBM has the table locked, that other program will *succeed* at opening the table. DBD::DBM's locking only applies to DBD::DBM. An exception to this would be the situation in which you use a lockfile with the other program that has the same name as the lockfile used in DBD::DBM and that program also uses flock() on that lockfile. In that case, DBD::DBM and your other program will respect each other's locks.
If you wish to use a lockfile extension other than '.lck', simply specify the dbm_lockfile attribute:
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:lockfile=.foo');
$dbh->{dbm_lockfile} = '.foo';
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{qux}->{lockfile} = '.foo';
If you wish to disable locking, set the dbm_lockfile equal to 0.
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:lockfile=0');
$dbh->{dbm_lockfile} = 0;
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{qux}->{lockfile} = 0;
By default, DBD::DBM uses the SDBM_File type of storage since SDBM_File comes with Perl itself. But if you have other types of DBM storage available, you can use any of them with DBD::DBM also.
You can specify the DBM type using the ``dbm_type'' attribute which can be set in the connection string or with the $dbh->{dbm_type} attribute for global settings or with the $dbh->{dbm_tables}->{$table_name}->{type} attribute for per-table settings in cases where a single script is accessing more than one kind of DBM file.
In the connection string, just set type=TYPENAME where TYPENAME is any DBM type such as GDBM_File, DB_File, etc. Do not use MLDBM as your dbm_type, that is set differently, see below.
my $dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:'); # uses the default SDBM_File
my $dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:type=GDBM_File'); # uses the GDBM_File
You can also use $dbh->{dbm_type} to set global DBM type:
$dbh->{dbm_type} = 'GDBM_File'; # set the global DBM type
print $dbh->{dbm_type}; # display the global DBM type
If you are going to have several tables in your script that come from different DBM types, you can use the $dbh->{dbm_tables} hash to store different settings for the various tables. You can even use this to perform joins on files that have completely different storage mechanisms.
my $dbh->('dbi:DBM:type=GDBM_File');
#
# sets global default of GDBM_File
my $dbh->{dbm_tables}->{foo}->{type} = 'DB_File';
#
# over-rides the global setting, but only for the table called "foo"
print $dbh->{dbm_tables}->{foo}->{type};
#
# prints the dbm_type for the table "foo"
If you want more than two columns, you must install MLDBM. It's available for many platforms and is easy to install.
MLDBM can use three different modules to serialize the column - Data::Dumper, Storable, and FreezeThaw. Data::Dumper is the default, Storable is the fastest. MLDBM can also make use of user-defined serialization methods. All of this is available to you through DBD::DBM with just one attribute setting.
To use MLDBM with DBD::DBM, you need to set the dbm_mldbm attribute to the name of the serialization module.
Some examples:
$dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:mldbm=Storable'); # use MLDBM with Storable
$dbh=DBI->connect(
'dbi:DBM:mldbm=MySerializer' # use MLDBM with a user defined module
);
$dbh->{dbm_mldbm} = 'MySerializer'; # same as above
print $dbh->{dbm_mldbm} # show the MLDBM serializer
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{foo}->{mldbm}='Data::Dumper'; # set Data::Dumper for table "foo"
print $dbh->{dbm_tables}->{foo}->{mldbm}; # show serializer for table "foo"
MLDBM works on top of other DBM modules so you can also set a DBM type along with setting dbm_mldbm. The examples above would default to using SDBM_File with MLDBM. If you wanted GDBM_File instead, here's how:
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:type=GDBM_File;mldbm=Storable');
#
# uses GDBM_File with MLDBM and Storable
SDBM_File, the default file type is quite limited, so if you are going to use MLDBM, you should probably use a different type, see AnyDBM_File.
See below for some ``GOTCHAS AND WARNINGS'' about MLDBM.
The ``BerkeleyDB'' dbm_type is experimental and its interface is likely to chagne. It currently defaults to BerkeleyDB::Hash and does not currently support ::Btree or ::Recno.
With BerkeleyDB, you can specify initialization flags by setting them in your script like this:
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:type=BerkeleyDB;mldbm=Storable');
use BerkeleyDB;
my $env = new BerkeleyDB::Env -Home => $dir; # and/or other Env flags
$dbh->{dbm_berkeley_flags} = {
'DB_CREATE' => DB_CREATE # pass in constants
, 'DB_RDONLY' => DB_RDONLY # pass in constants
, '-Cachesize' => 1000 # set a ::Hash flag
, '-Env' => $env # pass in an environment
};
Do not set the -Flags or -Filename flags, those are determined by the SQL (e.g. -Flags => DB_RDONLY is set automatically when you issue a SELECT statement).
Time has not permitted me to provide support in this release of DBD::DBM for further Berkeley DB features such as transactions, concurrency, locking, etc. I will be working on these in the future and would value suggestions, patches, etc.
See DB_File and BerkeleyDB for further details.
Option #1: By default, this module inherits its SQL support from DBI::SQL::Nano that comes with DBI. Nano is, as its name implies, a *very* small SQL engine. Although limited in scope, it is faster than option #2 for some operations. See DBI::SQL::Nano for a description of the SQL it supports and comparisons of it with option #2.
Option #2: If you install the pure Perl CPAN module SQL::Statement, DBD::DBM will use it instead of Nano. This adds support for table aliases, for functions, for joins, and much more. If you're going to use DBD::DBM for anything other than very simple tables and queries, you should install SQL::Statement. You don't have to change DBD::DBM or your scripts in any way, simply installing SQL::Statement will give you the more robust SQL capabilities without breaking scripts written for DBI::SQL::Nano. See SQL::Statement for a description of the SQL it supports.
To find out which SQL module is working in a given script, you can use the dbm_versions() method or, if you don't need the full output and version numbers, just do this:
print $dbh->{sql_handler};
That will print out either ``SQL::Statement'' or ``DBI::SQL::Nano''.
In DBD::DBM, you can take advantage of the speed of keyed lookups by using a WHERE clause with a single equal comparison on the key field. For example, the following SQL statements are optimized for keyed lookup:
CREATE TABLE user ( user_name TEXT, phone TEXT);
INSERT INTO user VALUES ('Fred Bloggs','233-7777');
# ... many more inserts
SELECT phone FROM user WHERE user_name='Fred Bloggs';
The ``user_name'' column is the key column since it is the first column. The SELECT statement uses the key column in a single equal comparision - "user_name='Fred Bloggs' - so the search will find it very quickly without having to loop through however many names were inserted into the table.
In contrast, thes searches on the same table are not optimized:
1. SELECT phone FROM user WHERE user_name < 'Fred'; 2. SELECT user_name FROM user WHERE phone = '233-7777';
In #1, the operation uses a less-than (<) comparison rather than an equals comparison, so it will not be optimized for key searching. In #2, the key field ``user_name'' is not specified in the WHERE clause, and therefore the search will need to loop through all rows to find the desired result.
DBD::DBM stores column names as a row in the file with the key _metadata \0. So this code
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:');
$dbh->do("CREATE TABLE baz (foo CHAR(10), bar INTEGER)");
$dbh->do("INSERT INTO baz (foo,bar) VALUES ('zippy',1)");
Will create a file that has a structure something like this:
_metadata \0 | foo,bar zippy | 1
The next time you access this table with DBD::DBM, it will treat the _metadata row as a header rather than as data and will pull the column names from there. However, if you access the file with something other than DBD::DBM, the row will be treated as a regular data row.
If you do not want the column names stored as a data row in the table you can set the dbm_store_metadata attribute to 0.
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:store_metadata=0');
or
$dbh->{dbm_store_metadata} = 0;
or, for per-table setting
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{qux}->{store_metadata} = 0;
By default, DBD::DBM assumes that you have two columns named ``k'' and ``v'' (short for ``key'' and ``value''). So if you have dbm_store_metadata set to 1 and you want to use alternate column names, you need to specify the column names like this:
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:store_metadata=0;cols=foo,bar');
or
$dbh->{dbm_store_metadata} = 0;
$dbh->{dbm_cols} = 'foo,bar';
To set the column names on per-table basis, do this:
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{qux}->{store_metadata} = 0;
$dbh->{dbm_tables}->{qux}->{cols} = 'foo,bar';
#
# sets the column names only for table "qux"
If you have a file that was created by another DBM program or created with dbm_store_metadata set to zero and you want to convert it to using DBD::DBM's column name storage, just use one of the methods above to name the columns but *without* specifying dbm_store_metadata as zero. You only have to do that once - thereafter you can get by without setting either dbm_store_metadata or setting dbm_cols because the names will be stored in the file.
print $dbh->dbm_versions; # displays global settings print $dbh->dbm_versions($table_name); # displays per table settings
An important thing to note about this method is that when called with no arguments, it displays the *global* settings. If you over-ride these by setting per-table attributes, these will not be shown unless you specifiy a table name as an argument to the method call.
You *must* use placeholders to insert or refer to the data.
$dbh->do(qq{DROP TABLE "/path/to/any/file"});
Each DBM type has limitations. SDBM_File, for example, can only store values of less than 1,000 characters. *You* as the script author must ensure that you don't exceed those bounds. If you try to insert a value that is bigger than the DBM can store, the results will be unpredictable. See the documentation for whatever DBM you are using for details.
Different DBM implementations return records in different orders. That means that you can not depend on the order of records unless you use an ORDER BY statement. DBI::SQL::Nano does not currently support ORDER BY (though it may soon) so if you need ordering, you'll have to install SQL::Statement.
DBM data files are platform-specific. To move them from one platform to another, you'll need to do something along the lines of dumping your data to CSV on platform #1 and then dumping from CSV to DBM on platform #2. DBD::AnyData and DBD::CSV can help with that. There may also be DBM conversion tools for your platforms which would probably be quickest.
When using MLDBM, there is a very powerful serializer - it will allow you to store Perl code or objects in database columns. When these get de-serialized, they may be evaled - in other words MLDBM (or actually Data::Dumper when used by MLDBM) may take the values and try to execute them in Perl. Obviously, this can present dangers, so if you don't know what's in a file, be careful before you access it with MLDBM turned on!
See the entire section on ``Table locking and flock()'' for gotchas and warnings about the use of flock().
If you have suggestions, ideas for improvements, or bugs to report, please write me directly at the email shown below.
When reporting bugs, please send the output of $dbh->dbm_versions($table) for a table that exhibits the bug and, if possible, as small a sample as you can make of the code that produces the bug. And of course, patches are welcome too :-).
Jeff Zucker < jzucker AT cpan.org >
Copyright (c) 2004 by Jeff Zucker, all rights reserved.
You may freely distribute and/or modify this module under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
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