http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=977414


in reply to Re: Inserting Hash Information Into MySQL
in thread Inserting Hash Information Into MySQL

A database cannot save a Perl hash (and certainly not a hash of array-refs)in its native format.

A database should have no problem with a hash. For instance, PostgreSQL has hstore [1], which not only makes implementing a hash easy, but can also index them (with either GIN (speed of lookup) or GiST (speed of writing)).

You will have to review and revise your database schema

Perhaps revise not 'database schema' but just 'database'... ;-)

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html