[postmodern-devel] Re: Storing Lists

[GP lisper]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:19:21 -0500, <mslamin at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I insert a list into a single field of a single record in the
> database?

Besides the other mentioned solutions, declare a blob field and insert
it as a string.  That way it is simple to read when using any SQL tool
to view the database.

> select tm,runs from mlb where tm="DET" order by key desc limit 1;
+-----+---------------------+
| tm  | runs                |
+-----+---------------------+
| DET | (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0) |
+-----+---------------------+

later, read-from-string fixes you up.


-- 
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was making lists the center of the language - kt