[ensembl-dev] Perl BLOBs in the ensembl compara database

[LAW Andy]

On 21 Jan 2011, at 17:04, Andy Jenkinson wrote:

> The implementation as it stands essentially requires that store/read operations on the database be done on machines with the same architecture. I guess this could be made more explicit, but bear in mind it will affect use of an API written in any language (including the Perl API itself). Unfortunately I think you are always going to have to keep abreast of changes to the Perl API if you create a Java translation, whether those changes affect the database or not. The extent to which you will have to modify the Java code accordingly is going to depend on how complete your implementation is - I expect there's plenty of pure logic that could harbour bugs or be subject to update!


There is a world of difference between "keeping abreast of changes to the Perl API" and having language and processor architecture dependencies actually built in to the database.

Later,

Andy
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