<html> <body> At 11:01 PM 7/31/2005, Arne Götje (高盛華) wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Memory and diskspace... I wonder if we can store the database in a binary form to save diskspace... (currently the (incomplete) database of California takes more than 500 MB on my system !)</blockquote> FWIW, MySQL's INNODB is binary, where MyISAM is basically ASCII (including numbers). Barry</body> </html>