perl-Tie-Hash-DBD

Tie a Plain Hash to a Database Table

This module has been created to act as a drop-in replacement for modules that tie straight perl hashes to disk, like 'DB_File'. When the running system does not have enough memory to hold large hashes, and disk-tieing won't work because there is not enough space, it works quite well to tie the hash to a database, which preferable runs on a different server. This module ties a hash to a database table using *only* a 'key' and a 'value' field. If no tables specification is passed, this will create a temporary table with 'h_key' for the key field and a 'h_value' for the value field. I think it would make sense to merge the functionality that this module provides into 'Tie::DBI'.