mySQL table as Perl Queue

Hi all- I would like to use a mySQL table as a huge FIFO queue (too big for a hash) in a Perl program. However, I am worried about speed. A standard way to get an item off the queue would be to issue a SELECT statement sorted on the index, and then to just make one call to a row-fetching method

Using tables with 2 different character sets

Hi- From sections 4.6 and 2.3.3 of the mySQL manual, it appears that Chinese character encodings are supported in the v 3.23.53 binaries (traditional with 'big5' and simplified with 'gb2312' and 'gbk'). However, that discussion only lists ways in which mysqld can be configured with '--default-