NAME¶

DBM_Filter::compress - filter for DBM_Filter

SYNOPSIS¶

    use SDBM_File; # or DB_File, or GDBM_File, or NDBM_File, or ODBM_File
    use DBM_Filter ;
    $db = tie %hash, ...
    $db->Filter_Push('compress');

DESCRIPTION¶

This DBM filter will compress all data before it is written to the database and uncompressed it on reading. A fatal error will be thrown if the Compress::Zlib module is not available.

SEE ALSO¶

DBM_Filter, perldbmfilter, Compress::Zlib

AUTHOR¶

Paul Marquess pmqs@cpan.org