Re: [squid-users] flat file parsing vs db filter rules parsing

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Muthukumar wrote:

> Yes, what will happened, when the pattern line length increased more than 256? Is there any default settings in system to limit a
> line length with 256.
> Do we have a need to increase Line length when we use pattern more than 256?

So far there has not been any need to have such long patterns.

for dstdomain there certainly is no need as a domain name is very limited
in length, but for url_regex it would make sense to support longer lines.

> How Did developers select 256 characters for maximum length to a line ?

Arbitrarily.

> We are trying to attain good performace compared to DB filters, so that
> which database will be appropriate to again this. Selection list is as,
> MySQL, .. BDB...

As I said, most peole needing performance in this kind of applications
selects Berkeley DB.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 06:39:02 MDT