Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Transactional persistence ?

From: Buster (booster_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-16 10:53:39

Mick Hollins wrote:
> 
> The approach I use is to use Berkeley DB for transactional persistence 
> of each element/object in the database, and boost::serialization for 
> converting C++ objects to and from the array of bytes that is required 
> by Berkeley DB. That is, I serialize at the granularity of individuals 
> objects in the database, rather than serializing the whole database 
> contents in one go.

Thanks, sounds like an excellent approach. I guess the only
downside is that boost::serialization can't detect duplicates
between elements, but I would imagine most implementations
are unlikely to have many of those.