On Mar 1, 2006, at 2:46 AM, David Binger wrote:
> The idea is to write the index in some format other than
> pickle that can be used without loading the whole thing
> first.

This implies a separate file for the db's index? Which seems like a
good idea to me, considering also that this index is anyway derived
data... And, if you want to regenerate the index, just remove the file
and restart the db.

mario