Re: I'll help with db debugging

According to Deven T. Corzine:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > OK, I'm going to fix the db problem by eliminating db. :-)
>
> If the idea is to have a text-based format that's more transparent so that
> one can identify corruption visually, wouldn't it work as well to have
> mechanisms to dump the DB database into one or more such formats? I see
> the value in having a readable format, but is it necessarily preferable as
> the native format?

I think so. I like having all my normal tools (find, grep, etc.) work,
without a lot of translation rigamarole.

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