search for: foxproid

...y operates on a bunch of binary files that each client reads from a fileserver when it wants to search and writes when it wants to update. These files have a very simple format: a fixed-length header followed by a number of fixed-length records. My idea was something like this: 1) Add a "foxproid" column to each PostgreSQL table. 2) When a client seek()s to an offset, convert that to a row number. 3) If the client read()s, do: a) select * from pgtable where foxproid = $seek_row; b) Convert the results into a string of bytes (this process is well defined) and return them to the...