Indexing problems

Sigh, I am not sure I like dbm ... ;-) I found a cure I think. Up till
now I went to my escape mechanism for large buckets whenever the
current bucketsize and whatever I wanted to add exceeded 1000 chars
(because I assumed the bucket max to be 1024). Then I suddenly noticed
that the funny dbm bevaiour happened when the old bucket and to be
added value was *exactly* 1000 chars. I changed my test to 950 chars
and voila it worked ....

Could the MERIT folks please change the following and see if they can
index the prdb?

in cldb.pl routine setmspnxl() change:

    if (length($value) + length($addvalue) > 1000) {

to

    if (length($value) + length($addvalue) > 950) {


install and run an index. It worked for me on prdb ....

-MT



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