[erlang-questions] Storing erlang terms in RDMBS

[Anthony Shipman]

On Fri, 29 May 2009 04:23:39 pm Koushik Narayanan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the right way to store erlang terms in a RDBMS accessed using
> the odbc application.
>
> Since the sql_param function takes a string as query argument, how do
> we write a binary and more importantly fetch it back ?
>
> One naive idea would be to base64 the binary, but that is ineffecient
> and surely there should be a better way.
>

"inefficient" will depend on whether you are looking to minimise time or 
space. I do
      term_to_binary -> zlib:deflate -> base64 encode
The deflate cancels out the space growth of base64. I doubt the execution time 
matters compared against the work done writing it to the db.

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