From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42495 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:36:36 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87g04x7w4q.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87hepc8qmt.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177728 12067 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23669 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 08:37:12 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 08:37:12 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16TfNP-00019X-00; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:36:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:36:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA14159 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:36:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23645 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2002 08:36:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23640 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 08:36:37 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 08:36:37 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16TfOW-0001IS-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:38:04 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011861484 4840 195.204.10.148 (24 Jan 2002 08:38:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jan 2002 08:38:04 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Knowing We Was Right From The Start_: "Hood - Biochemistry Revision Can Wait" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J writes: > 3) Implement .overview.db, which allows you to find the overview line, > in Lisp `read' format, given the article number. Or whatever. Or perhaps stick the overview data into a Berkeley DB? I haven't actually played with bdb (or any of its brethren) at all -- would asking a bdb thing for overview files (indexed on article numbers) be very fast? And does Emacs have native bdb support? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen